>From the newbie zone: I built my Linux box, with this CPU from Fry's: Athlon XP 2200+. But when I boot, the BIOS reports "AMD 1500+" Hey pal, that's 700 MHz short of what I paid for! :-( So I searched around and learned how to do this: "cat /proc/cpuinfo" This is what it says: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1344.297 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 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 2680.42 In other words, the missing 700 MHz is really "Marketing MHz" meant to say it runs as fast as an Intel processor at 2200 MHz? Can anybody read these tea leaves and help me understand whether I am getting everything out of my processor? Thanks -- Craig