Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I know this is a bit OT, but the subject of CPU speed came up here and I > was > (and have been for some time) curious: > > What is the actual speed of an AMD CPU? E.g., I have a Athlon 64 X2 > "4200+" > but my /proc/cpuinfo shows 1005.164 MHz for the two cores. > > What do those mean? Is there a reference for this (huge) discrepancy? 1Ghz means power saving is enabled.