SPAM: Re: [SLE] SPAM: AMD Dual core "clock speed"

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:28 -1000, Susemail wrote:

With respect to the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ are they taking two cpu's (cores) running at 1 Ghz - summing their clock speeds and calling it a 2.4 Ghz processor?

No, your processors are running in "dynamic" mode, which means they adapt their frequency to how you use the system. If you run something CPU intensive, they will (or should) go to max speed. If you want them running at max speed always, set this in YaST's powersave module (change from Dynamic to Performance I think it's called) On the command line you can use "powersave -f", to make a temporary change to max CPU power