I have a Dell R320 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2403 0 @ 1.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x71a cpu MHz : 176.550 Running this: cpupower frequency-set -g performance cpu MHz : 180.834 ONly changed to this. What on earth is making this machine run sooo slow ??? Its OFF by a factor of 10 - it should be 1800 mhz Thanks, Jerry