vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 4450e Processor stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2812.976 cache size : 1024 KB
It is just setting a few things in the BIOS:
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The second core comes in handy now I run all that number crunching in octave.Seems the second core works OK... so far... :-)