How the CPU speed is determined

Nothing to difficult here, just the quick and dirty. The CPU speed is determined by taking the external clock speed and multiplying it with the CPU multiplier. For example: My board has a external clock rate (speed) of approx. 166.5 MHz.  My CPU (Intel Core Duo) has a multiplier of 12. (166.5)(12) = 1998 MHz…  [...]

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