Frequency scaling survey

[Thomas Kaiser]

Slim Joe wrote:
> Could some list members post the result of the
> following two commands (second "cat" command may
> break across two lines):
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> 
> I'm looking to upgrade my current Sempron 1.8GHz
> and am interested to find which mainstream dual-
> core processor (Intel or AMD) is most efficient
> at doing nothing. (The Atom would be too slow
> for me.)
> 
> My results:
> 
> model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
> 1800000 1000000
> 
> TIA
> 

Looks like all have dual core!?
Here is mine and just works great with one core :-)
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
thomas at AMD64:~$ cat 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
1800000 1000000


Thomas