> > Can you just run CPU-Z on it? > > Yes & No, CPU-Z will only tell you what the current clock speed of the CPU. On the > Sandybridge CPUs you overclock the turbo mode, so if there is no load on the CPU it > will clock itself back to ~1.6ghz, put load on the CPU with CPU-Z open and you can > see CPU crank up to what ever the overclock speed is.
CPU-Z also isn't quite stable on Sandy yet. My brother has his around 4.6 GHz and CPU-Z tends to read random numbers north of 5 GHz, which we know isn't right.
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