What is my cpu?

tyreth · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject: What is my cpu?

How can I tell what my cpu is? Specifically, I have an AMD athlon, but how do I know if it's a thunderbird or what? /proc/cpuinfo doesn't seem to say - does this mean it's a plain athlon or not necessarily?

I have a 1.333ghz cpu. My cousin has a 1ghz athlon too.

Thanks.

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

Athlon-TBird

if its slot its a Classic Athlon
if its socket, but doesnt support SSE its an Athlon-TB
if its socket, and supports SSE its Athlon-XP

bs · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject:

If /proc/cpuinfo tells you that the model is 4, then it should be a thunderbird.

I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400. cat /proc/cpuinfo says:

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 1400.098
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2791.83

You might also look at
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/20734.pdf

tyreth · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:28 am Post subject:

yep it says model 4.

Is there much of a speed increase compiling athlon-tb rather than just tb?

Thanks

santi___ · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:56 am Post subject:

And what about the Durons? How do I know if my Duron is Classic Athlon, a TB or a XP?

bs · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 11:20 am Post subject:

Maybe

link

or

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/20734.pdf

will help identifying your CPU

EDIT: Changed long url to 'link' for phpbb sanity. - kanuslupus