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The [[SMBiosSMBIOS]] (System Management BIOS) Specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on Intel architecture systems. The information is intended to allow generic instrumentation to deliver this information to management applications that use DMI, CIM or direct access, eliminating the need for error prone operations like probing system hardware for presence detection.
 
Do note that SMBIOS was never intended for initialisation purposes. It was intended to provide information for asset management systems to quickly determine what computers contained what hardware. Unfortunately this means that it might be quite unreliable, especially on cheap/home systems. So ultimately it may not be the best way to determine CPU speed.
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