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What is bad about cpuid?
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The CPUID is a [http://markhobley.yi.org/glossary/supplementaryinstruction.html processor supplementary instruction] for the [[x86]] architecture that can be used to retrieve various amount of information about your [[CPU]]cpu, like its vendor string and model number, the size of internal caches and (more interesting), the list of CPU features supported.
 
== How to use CPUID ==
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* Intel's [http://bochs.sourceforge.net/techspec/24161821.pdf CPUID Specification]
* AMD's [http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/25481.pdf CPUID Specification]
* [http://markhobley.yi.org/programming/cpuid.html What is bad about cpuid?]
 
[[Category:X86 CPU]]