Where to find 'stepping' and other CPU info?

[David Cook]

In Win-XP, there must be some way to see the gory details
of exactly which processor and stepping (etc) that Win-XP
is seeing.

Taking heat-sink fans off or opening a laptop (i.e. to physically look)
are outdated, right?

(I'm trying to resolve an 'technical bulletin' issue to see if a customer's
machine's CPU matches a 'know-problem' CPU/stepping value.)

Right-clicking on 'My Computer' shows more generic info about the
processor (when I tried it on two machines here). I assumed is was
buried down inside 'Device Manager' somewhere, but I've had NO
luck finding it.

TIA...

Dave

 

[MrB]

The free Sisoft Sandra program gives it to you.

 

[Guest]

In Win-XP, there must be some way to see the gory details
of exactly which processor and stepping (etc) that Win-XP
is seeing.

Taking heat-sink fans off or opening a laptop (i.e. to physically look)
are outdated, right?

(I'm trying to resolve an 'technical bulletin' issue to see if a customer's
machine's CPU matches a 'know-problem' CPU/stepping value.)

Right-clicking on 'My Computer' shows more generic info about the
processor (when I tried it on two machines here). I assumed is was
buried down inside 'Device Manager' somewhere, but I've had NO
luck finding it.

TIA...

Dave

Check here
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/tools/frequencyid/sb/CS-007623.htm

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello David,
You should be able to see this from within MSINFO32 under system summery.
This looks to be pulled from the registry at:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment\Processor_Identifier
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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[Alex Nichol]

In Win-XP, there must be some way to see the gory details
of exactly which processor and stepping (etc) that Win-XP
is seeing.

Taking heat-sink fans off or opening a laptop (i.e. to physically look)
are outdated, right?

get the free Everest Home edition from
http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1
which is an excellent general System Info tool, and its Motherboard -
CPU page will tell you just about everything. For Intel processors
there is also a tool you can download from Intel which may be a bit
finer detailed