On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
>
> this appears to be a "non-mobile" CPU, only "Mobile" branded cpus tend
> to have cpufreq/speedstep support...

The BIOS has a setting labelled "Intel Speedstep technology" with settings of 
Automatic and Disabled. It's set to Automatic. Sisoft Sandra (on WinXP) 
reports that the CPU does support Speedstep.

The output from cpuid is:

CPU 0:
   vendor_id = "GenuineIntel"
   version information (1/eax):
      processor type  = primary processor (0)
      family          = Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron, AMD Athlon/Duron, 
Cyrix M2, VIA C3 (6)
      model           = 0x8 (8)
      stepping id     = 0xa (10)
      extended family = 0x0 (0)
      extended model  = 0x0 (0)
      (simple synth)  = Intel Pentium III / Pentium III Xeon / Celeron / 
Mobile Pentium III (Coppermine D0) / Mobile Celeron (Coppermine D0), .18um
   miscellaneous (1/ebx):
      process local APIC physical ID = 0x0 (0)
      cpu count                      = 0x0 (0)
      CLFLUSH line size              = 0x0 (0)
      brand index                    = 0x2 (2)
   brand id = 0x02 (2): Intel Pentium III, .18um
   feature information (1/edx):
      x87 FPU on chip                        = true
      virtual-8086 mode enhancement          = true
      debugging extensions                   = true
      page size extensions                   = true
      time stamp counter                     = true
      RDMSR and WRMSR support                = true
      physical address extensions            = true
      machine check exception                = true
      CMPXCHG8B inst.                        = true
      APIC on chip                           = false
      SYSENTER and SYSEXIT                   = true
      memory type range registers            = true
      PTE global bit                         = true
      machine check architecture             = true
      conditional move/compare instruction   = true
      page attribute table                   = true
      page size extension                    = true
      processor serial number                = false
      CLFLUSH instruction                    = false
      debug store                            = false
      thermal monitor and clock ctrl         = false
      MMX Technology                         = true
      FXSAVE/FXRSTOR                         = true
      SSE extensions                         = true
      SSE2 extensions                        = false
      self snoop                             = false
      hyper-threading / multi-core supported = false
      therm. monitor                         = false
      IA64                                   = false
      pending break event                    = false
   feature information (1/ecx):
      PNI/SSE3: Prescott New Instructions    = false
      MONITOR/MWAIT                          = false
      CPL-qualified debug store              = false
      VMX: virtual machine extensions        = false
      Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology    = false
      thermal monitor 2                      = false
      context ID: adaptive or shared L1 data = false
      cmpxchg16b available                   = false
      send task priority messages            = false
   cache and TLB information (2):
      0x01: instruction TLB: 4K pages, 4-way, 32 entries
      0x02: instruction TLB: 4M pages, 4-way, 2 entries
      0x03: data TLB: 4K pages, 4-way, 64 entries
      0x82: L2 cache: 256K, 8-way, 32 byte lines
      0x08: L1 instruction cache: 16K, 4-way, 32 byte lines
      0x04: data TLB: 4M pages, 4-way, 8 entries
      0x0c: L1 data cache: 16K, 4-way, 32 byte lines
   (multi-processing synth): none
   (synth) = Intel Pentium III (Coppermine D0), .18um

It doesn't mean much to me I'm afraid.

Chris

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