https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Programmatic-way-to-compare-processors/m-p/914874#M12482 Hello! <DIV><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV>First of all, I apologize for asking this question in this forum. I'm aware the question is unrelated to the forum's purposes, but I just wasn't able to find another place to post it to. Feel free to move it around to wherever it best fits.</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>So, the question...</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>I am developing a program in C# using .NET 3.5 for checking if a computer has the minimum requirements for running a given installation. The main problem I am facing is regarding how to compare the current system CPU against the minimum requirements.</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>I'm currently using WMI to query for the installed processor, but all I get is the processor name, clock frequency and Family/Model/Stepping (along some other info that doesn't look like very helpful for what I need).</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>Is there any way I can compute if CPU is faster then the minimum requirements based on the information provided by WMI? Or would I have to run a benchmark and forget about WMI information?</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance!</DIV> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:58:37 GMT rafaelbc 2010-01-05T15:58:37Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Programmatic-way-to-compare-processors/m-p/914874#M12482 Hello! <DIV><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV>First of all, I apologize for asking this question in this forum. I'm aware the question is unrelated to the forum's purposes, but I just wasn't able to find another place to post it to. Feel free to move it around to wherever it best fits.</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>So, the question...</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>I am developing a program in C# using .NET 3.5 for checking if a computer has the minimum requirements for running a given installation. The main problem I am facing is regarding how to compare the current system CPU against the minimum requirements.</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>I'm currently using WMI to query for the installed processor, but all I get is the processor name, clock frequency and Family/Model/Stepping (along some other info that doesn't look like very helpful for what I need).</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>Is there any way I can compute if CPU is faster then the minimum requirements based on the information provided by WMI? Or would I have to run a benchmark and forget about WMI information?</DIV> <DIV><BR /></DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance!</DIV> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:58:37 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Programmatic-way-to-compare-processors/m-p/914874#M12482 rafaelbc 2010-01-05T15:58:37Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Programmatic-way-to-compare-processors/m-p/914875#M12483 <DIV style="margin: 0px; height: auto;"></DIV> <BR />Rafaelbc,<BR /><BR />Intel IPP has what you are looking for, please check the article at the following URL:<BR /><A href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-integrated-performance-primitives-intel-ipp-is-there-any-function-to-detect-processor-type/" target="_blank">http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-integrated-performance-primitives-intel-ipp-is-there-any-function-to-detect-processor-type/</A><BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />Tamer Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:20:25 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Programmatic-way-to-compare-processors/m-p/914875#M12483 Tamer_Assad 2010-01-07T23:20:25Z