How do I get the PC's Processor speed?

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Nov 6, 2:27 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 2:12 PM,  <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 6, 1:35 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Nov 6, 2007 1:18 PM,  <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > We use a script here at work that runs whenever someone logs into
> > > > their machine that logs various bits of information to a database. One
> > > > of those bits is the CPU's model and speed. While this works in 95% of
> > > > the time, we have some fringe cases where the only thing returned is
> > > > the processor name. We use this data to help us decide which PCs need
> > > > to be updated, so it would be nice to have the processor speed in all
> > > > cases.
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> > > > Currently, this script is run on Windows boxes only, most of which
> > > > have Windows XP on them. Right now I am having Python check the
> > > > following registry key for the CPU info: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\
> > > > \DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0
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> > > > I've also used Tim Golden's WMI module like so:
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> > > > <code>
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> > > > import wmi
> > > > c = wmi.WMI()
> > > > for i in c.Win32_Processor ():
> > > >     cputype = i.Name
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> > > > </code>
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> > > > On the problem PCs, both of these methods give me the same information
> > > > (i.e. only the processor name). However, if I go to "System
> > > > Properties" and look at the "General" tab, it lists the CPU name and
> > > > processor speed. Does anyone else know of another way to get at this
> > > > information?
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> > > You'd want the MaxClockSpeed property. There's a few other clock speed
> > > properties as well, seehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394373.aspx.
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> > > MSDN should always be your first stop with WMI questions, by the way.
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> > That's true, but I didn't just use WMI to try to get this information.
> > I also looked in the registry...although I forgot to mention that I
> > used the _winreg module to do so.
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> > I did see that when I looked at Microsoft's Python scripts here:
> >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/pyindex....
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> > MaxClockSpeed doesn't report the speed the same way MS does in the
> > System Properties, but I suppose I can work around that. Although this
> > will make AMD 3800+ procs look much slower (i.e. 2.4 Ghz in this
> > case).
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> System Properties probably uses current clock speed, which will
> usually be lower than max clock speed on modern processors, which
> scale their speed with load.

I don't think so. For example, my PC has an "AMD Athlon(tm) 64
Processor 3800+", which is what's reported in System Properties. On
one of the problem PCs, System Properties lists it as "AMD Athlon(tm)
1.73 Ghz".

The 3800+ on my machine is reflected in the registry key I mentioned
and WMI also finds that somewhere. But the 1.73 Ghz is in neither of
these places. However, using MaxClockSpeed and dividing by 1000 along
with some string manipulation gets me closer...although I think this
may cause potential problems.

Thanks for the feedback.

Mike