"Tabby" wrote in message
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On Jan 10, 11:15 pm, "the_constructor"
wrote:
I have had a PC given to me. Looks quite old and it is running Win98.

How can I tell the speed of the processor.?

I have looked in START/CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM but it only tells me what it
is,
not the speed.

Jim

Put a memtest86 cd in and boot. You'll see the cpu freq and amount of
ram right away. You may need to go into bios to tell it to boot from
cd before hdd - leave it that way.

In the unlikely event that its a very old 95 era machine heavily
upgraded you might need to use a memtest floppy.


NT

Many thanks to all for the advice, I have just ran this program:
http://www.wizard-soft.com/cpuspeed/index.htm
and it showed the the speed of the processor was 467.7 MHz, which hopefully
will do fine for what I need.

Jim