just a bit more info ... disabling AMD's "Cool n Quiet" processor scaling support in BIOS, verifying no scaling support, cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 004: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006 Report errors and bugs to http://bugs.opensuse.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU analyzing CPU 1: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU analyzing CPU 2: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU analyzing CPU 3: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU now CPU processor shows @ OS correctly, cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "MHz|bogomips" cpu MHz : 3724.127 bogomips : 7448.24 cpu MHz : 3724.127 bogomips : 7448.40 cpu MHz : 3724.127 bogomips : 7448.49 cpu MHz : 3724.127 bogomips : 7448.46 but note that the bogomips results are the same as in my OP for the reported 2.8GHz operation ... confusion abounds! :-/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org