What is the current frequency of my processor (CPU-Z equivalent)?

Is there a ubuntu program like CPU-Z which will show me the actual frequency of my processor?

I do a fair amount of scientific computing which leads to me running my programs for up to 10 hrs. To alleviate this problem a little I overclock my CPU. However I can't see what the actual clock of my processor from within ubuntu which means I either have to restart and look at the bios or load into windows. If there was an applet or command line command to find out this information it would be very helpful.

Thanks for your help

Solution 1:

The file /proc/cpuinfo contains information about the cpu(s) on your system. To just get the clock rate, you could run cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz".

Solution 2:

you can use CPU-G, CPU-G is an application that shows useful information about your hardware which have 'similar' appearence with CPU-Z on windows; see here

Solution 3:

There is a program called " Hardinfo" . It is there in the repository. It will give you the detaiiled hardware indformation about your system. If you are using the old gnome-panels then there is also the " cpu frequency monitoring applet" which will show your current cpu status.