From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Reading MSR (Athlon multiplier)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:03:38 GMT
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In article <945a90$ckgq1$1 AT ID-57378 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de>,
  "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> right, you can use RDTSC for getting CPU speed. But RDTSC can be disabled in
> user mode (e.g. Privilege Level 3) by an OS.
> for instance, the following code works fine on my Celeron566 imder winME and
> gives 564-566MHz:

Works somewhat cool, I got 807Mhz on my 800Mhz TBird Athlon.

Tom


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