From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 11:00:22 +0100, John R Walliker wrote:   
      
   >> Note that, while it says up top “up to 3.4GHz”, the detailed specs   
   >> further down only show “1.7GHz”. Intel’s Alder Lake seems to be   
   >> about four years old, and remember it’s part of the “Celeron”   
   >> branding.   
   >   
   > Most computers are idle for a lot of the time, so falling back to a   
   > lower clock speed when it is not busy does save power.   
      
   Except your cheap Celerons are not capable of the higher speed.   
      
   You can check this easily enough, by looking in   
   /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/.   
      
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