The Belarc advisor is querying configuration information about the chip to
determine the rated and configured speed.  The properties page is estimating
the processor speed, based on a much less thorough querying process, and
much more upon performance of some known piece of code against the state of
CPUs at the time this OS release was under development.  (This isn't a
critical piece of functionality in the OS, so there's nobody who updates it
whenever Intel comes out with a new CPU model.)

David Gillett


On 9 Aug 2004 at 20:39, gregory Moyer wrote:

> I purchased a IBM Thinkpad that is to have a Intel P3 500 mhz
> processor. When I checked properties in my computer it shows a 146 mhz
> processor. The device manager shows a Intel P3 processor. I also ran
> belarc advisor it shows a P3 500mhz. Processor. What is correct?

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