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Subject: Re: CPU clock speed determination? - solved, and a new question

Author: martin fierz

Date: 14:59:36 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 16:56:14, martin fierz wrote:

>i'm looking for a way to determine the clock speed of a CPU with MSVC. i found
>some stuff on CPUID on the net; some _asm routines which return strings like
>"AuthenticAMD" or "GenuineIntel", and processor model numbers, stepping numbers
>etc. but that's not what i'm really looking for. i dream of the following
>function:
>
>int cpuid(char *s)
>
>which i could call

after some research on the web, and some _asm programming of mine which
unexpectedly worked, i've solved my problem.

but i have another question: some programs display the exact clock frequency of
the processor - how do they do that? with a program like the one suggested by ed
schröder below in this thread?

cheers
  martin



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