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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:57:38 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org;, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPU speed not reported correctly
Message-ID:  <20041230005738.GD68336@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041229212555.GD89526@gargantuan.com>
References:  <20041229212555.GD89526@gargantuan.com>

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:25:55PM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ (801.83-MHz K8-class CPU)
..
> OK, here is my question:  Why is the CPU speed reported as 801.83MHz?
> Is there something really wrong with my setup here?  I have this machine
> configured to dual boot with the other OS being the x64 version of XP,
> and it reports a 2.2GHz CPU (for what it's worth...).

You've some how gotten your Athlon64 processor in Cool-n-Quiet (ie,
PowerNOW) cool, low-power mode.  If you do a cold boot into FreeBSD, what
CPU speed is reported?  By chance is this a laptop and not a desktop.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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