Core i5 actual speed?

[mrdm]

There appears to be a way to tell the current running clock speed of the core i5 in a windows environment. Any way to read the current speed in OSX?

Maybe something similar to the way you can tell if the Nvidia or Intel GPU is currently in use by using system profiler? I haven't discovered anything yet.

 

[diamond.g]

A member had posted here before that MacCPUID will show the current running CPU speed. I personally haven't gotten it to work though.

 

[Reelknead1]

I downloaded the program and it seems to be working but i don't see any difference in clock speed even when i tried to compress something using handbrake. I figured running them at 400% would trigger the increase.

 

[alphaod]

I downloaded the program and it seems to be working but i don't see any difference in clock speed even when i tried to compress something using handbrake. I figured running them at 400% would trigger the increase.

If it's running at 400%, there won't be an increase

 

[mrdm]

I downloaded the program and it seems to be working but i don't see any difference in clock speed even when i tried to compress something using handbrake. I figured running them at 400% would trigger the increase.

I downloaded as well and haven't seen it go faster than the base speed no matter what task is in process. I wonder if this program really works because I would have expected it to go into turbo mode based on some of the currently running activities.