[CentOS] cpu type

[Matt Hyclak]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:36:28PM +0000, John Bowden enlightened us:
> > Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley 
> scrawled:
> > > and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the
> > > terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say
> > > that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> >
> > Steve
> 
> This command tells you what CPU you are running, but not what CPU the 
> motherboard is capable of tacking. That depends on the type of CPU socket is 
> on the motherboard and sometimes the BIOS revision. When the machine boots up 
> and displays the bios screen it should display a longish line of letters and 
> text at the bottom or top of the screen, (in between the memory / hard drive 
> info). Make a note of it and do a Google search on it will give you the 
> motherboards manufacturer and bios revision. If the board is out of a HP, Del 
> or other branded manufacturer then you can use software to interrogate the 
> motherboard and bios to get this info. I don't know of any Linux commands to 
> do this though. 

/usr/sbin/dmidecode

Matt

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