CAMEL - CPU Identifier Class

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Introduction

Camel is a generic Windows^� / Linux CPU detection class which can display details about the hardware installed within the computer. It can display items such as the CPU manufacturer, CPU model and name, clock speed and other hardware details.

What Do I Get With This?

Well a complete CPU identification and capabilities class. Also there is a complete Windows version detection algorithm included in the demo source. The demo (including pre-compiled binary) provides a replacement for WCPUID and similar applications and as the binary is < 150 kb, it is nice and small.

How Can I Use It?

1. E-Mail me for permission to use/include (always given). I just want to know what purpose it is being used for. It is provided completely for "Non-Commercial Usage."
2. Include the files in your C++ project.
3. Compile!
4. Play!

What About.... AKA: Specific In-depth Details

Supports Microsoft� Windows� From:

Windows� 95 / 95 OSR2 / 95 OSR2.5
Windows� 98 / 98 SE
Windows� Millennium
Windows� NT 3.51
Windows� NT 4.0 Workstation / Server [Including SP1 to SP6a]
Windows� 2000 Workstation / Server / Advanced Server / Datacenter Server (Including SP1 to SP3)
Windows� XP Personal / Professional [Including SP1]
Windows� .NET Web Server / Standard Server / Enterprise Server

Supports Processors From:

Intel / AMD / Cyrix / Rise / UMC / IDT / Transmeta / NexGen / National Semiconductor

See Camel.txt for processor listings... E.g. Pentium III "Coppermine" or Athlon XP 1800+ (Thoroughbred Core).

Detects Hardware Features:

Processor hardware

Single Processors
Dual Processors
Multiple Processors
HyperThreading Technology
Serial Number [if enabled]
On-Chip APIC Hardware
Hard-Coded Chip Names
L1 Cache Size
L2 Cache Size
L3 Cache Size
CPU Clock Speed [of each processor]
Thermal Monitioring Support
ACPI Support
On-Chip PowerManagement [SpeedStep, etc.]

Multimedia Instruction Sets

MMX
MMX+
Streaming SIMD Extensions
Streaming SIMD Extensions [Floating Point]
Streaming SIMD Extensions [MMX]
Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
3DNow!
3DNow!+

General Instruction Sets

Floating Point Unit [FPU]
Time Stamp Counter [TSC]
Conditional Move [CMOV]
Memory Type Range Registers [MTRR]

Other notes:

The 2nd generation CPU speed test is "loosely" based on code from Pavlos Touboulidis. It is far enough removed to be no-longer copyright to him. I think. Anyway this is the obligatory mention.

Known Bugs And Problems:

CAM_00000001: Last Tree Node Fails To Display '+' Icon Properly.
CAM_00000002: CPU Speed Detection Results With +/- 10MHz Deviation. (FIXED: Version 1.2)
CAM_00000003: Fails To Detect APIC ID Properly With < Intel P4 Processors.

NOTE:

Some of the functionality is missing. Some of the menu items do not yet work nor some of the benchmarks. None of these missing features affect the CPU identification code! I apologize and will implement these in time. Or you can.....

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Simple way to get CPU Name - works with new CPUs (Intel Core2 Extreme - Q9300 2.53GHz) matt2000 7:51 28 Oct '09   Note: Only tested on XP/32 - compiled in VC6/C++ #include <intrin.h> CString CPU_Name() { // Get extended ids. int CPUInfo[4] = {-1}; __cpuid(CPUInfo, 0x80000000); unsigned int nExIds = CPUInfo[0]; // Get the information associated with each extended ID. char CPUBrandString[0x40] = { 0 }; for( unsigned int i=0x80000000; i<=nExIds; ++i) { __cpuid(CPUInfo, i); // Interpret CPU brand string and cache information. if (i == 0x80000002) { memcpy( CPUBrandString, CPUInfo, sizeof(CPUInfo)); } else if( i == 0x80000003 ) { memcpy( CPUBrandString + 16, CPUInfo, sizeof(CPUInfo)); } else if( i == 0x80000004 ) { memcpy(CPUBrandString + 32, CPUInfo, sizeof(CPUInfo)); } } // some CPU names have extra leading/trailing spaces CString s = CPUBrandString; s.TrimLeft(); s.TrimRight(); return s; } Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Broken link for the newest Camel code Hunt Chang 2:03 3 Oct '08   Dear Mr. Chesworth, I have tried to search your latest version of code, Camel 1.8, and found a download link at http://www.voodoo-magic.net/products/camel/camel.html[^] via http://www.softpedia.com/developer/Iain-Chesworth-46555.html[^]. However this link is broken. Could you please fix it or advise where I may get your latest code? Best Regards, Hunt Chang Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) no windows code ? Member 3068 13:41 5 Aug '08   I really enjoied (sp??) your library , but there is a problem in the identification code, i have a quad core and it doesn't detect it, the name is unknown and it doesn't detect the cache on board. Also misses some features i know i ahve mounted on the chip. Is there any chance to see the windows version ? in the download is present only the linux version Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink CPU identification tool for 64-bit windows Amol_81_Adya 3:02 18 Jul '08   Hi all, Can any body tell me whether the camel identification tool is available for 64-bit windows. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Other licencing probabilitiies? jazuju 2:12 1 Feb '08   Hi, Iain! I would like to use your code on a commercial software, which won't be licenced under GPL. So, is there any possibility to use your code under some other licence? (Some authors sell also commercial licences for GPL code, i.e. http://www.artpol-software.com/Purchase.aspx[^] ) Thanks for answer! Regards, Jaakko Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Detecting number of CPUs Gonzus 11:07 27 Jul '07   Hello, I have code like what you have shown in Camel, using the CPUID instruction, to detect the type of CPU the program is running on (under Win32 and Linux). But I have not been able to find out how to detect the number of physical and / or logical CPUs present in the system. Could you provide any hints on how you can do this? Thanks in advance and best regards. Gonzalo Diethelm Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (2 votes) Where updated version ? Enrique Ardanaz 7:36 15 Mar '07   First of all, thanks for sharing such an important code for managing cpuid informations. I've been using your code in these two small projects http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121182 http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121066 My apologizes if I had to ask for permission before, I picked from and old avisynth code. It was when I tryied to update this code for newer machines I realized that I had to ask permission before using it. I have looked for days in the net and couldn't find any newer the one is in avisynth project page. Are you still working in this project, where can I find an update version? Thanks in advance Enrique Ardanaz (ardanaz@excite.com) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.67/5 (2 votes) permission Manasi D 2:42 24 Jan '07   hi, i am working on a project wherein i need to retrieve the cpu power management information. Can I use your code? Also if you could help me by telling is there any way to retrieve CPU temp by using your code, it will be really wonderful. Please help. Thanks, Manasi Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) How to identify Cores? MayerBurli 5:59 17 Aug '06   Hi! How is it possible to identify different cores on dual or quad core cpus? thx. juergen Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) permission MayerBurli 5:58 17 Aug '06   Hi! I want to write a small program (commandline-tool) to get the count of cpus, cores, HT,... may I do it? thx. juergen Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink permission dacian_herbei 23:29 1 Aug '06   Hi, I'm working on a library that uses opengl to create GUI-s based on text files and I need to detect the cpu features so I can write my assembly code. For the moment is in alpha stage so the only link I can provide you is this http://sourceforge.net/projects/celui So I need to use parts of your code probably that is why I'm asking for the permission. all the best. dacian nothing is new only rediscovered Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink permission chunnu_80 8:40 10 Apr '06   hi i am doing project in my final semester. and i want to use this program to have the information.please send me code at rakeshsemilo@yahoo.com Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink VC 6.0 Project works first time only Gonzus 6:10 23 Feb '06   I tried creating a VC6 project for Camel. Did "New Win32 App" (NOT console) and added all files to the respective folders ("Header Files", "Source Files", "Resource Files"). Then changed the "C Code generation" option: for Debug, set it to "Debug Multithreaded DLL"; for Release, set it to "Multithreaded DLL". Saved the project and hit "Rebuild All" with the default configuration, which is Debug; everything works and I end up with an executable that can be run without any problems. If I now quit MSVC, restart it, reload my newly created project and hit "Rebuild All", everything compiles but the linker complains (the error code is LNK2001) that it cannot find "WinMain@16". What the hell? I have made ZERO changes to the source files or the project files! Any hints are more than welcome. Thanks and best regards. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.50/5 (2 votes) Using the source code in VB.NET codemaster2 21:48 20 Jan '06   Ok so, I imported the code into VS2005 and compiled it into a DLL, but I can't seem to be able to use it in VB.NET... I add a reference to the DLL and I can declare a new variable with the type of CPUInfo, but it has no methods, only a few array methods... Apparently it is a structure not a class... still, that doesn't explain why it doesn't work :S Any help would be appreciated -- modified at 15:26 Sunday 22nd January, 2006 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) Re: Using the source code in VB.NET thisisbullshit 21:53 11 Mar '07   Time to learn real language. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Pentium® III (0.13 µm) ??? matt2000 6:36 26 Nov '05   On some machines the CPU name comes back Pentium® III (0.13 µm) With 256 Or 512 KB On-Die L2 Cache. Some are Pentium® III (0.18 µm). Seems to be only a Pentium III problem. Is there a way to convert it to a processor speed? We're using it for customer bug reports. Some of our customers have very old machines. Everything else is working great. Nice work, Ian. Matt Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Window 2003 server tunchi 11:41 16 Sep '05   Version.dwMajorVersion == 5 && Version.dwMinorVersion == 2 is Windows 2003 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Permission to use Borrisholt 1:59 6 Jul '05   Hi I'm wirting on at free application detection system information, but I have ran into som problems with the Level XX cache, my routines does not always detect ti correct, but youers does whork where mine do not. I've got support for some more CPU stuff than you if interested, please send me an email Jens Borrisholt Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Permission to use Nightfox 22:34 21 Mar '05   Iain, I am doing a project for school, and I would like to use your cpu_info source. I'm writing a multi-track audio recording application, and I require having a delay in part of the applicaiton in order to synchronize sound playback & recording, and it looks like I'll need to adjust the delay based on computer speed. Your source would help. Eric Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Permission. Jijoraj 1:26 29 Sep '04   Dear Iain, Im doing a personal project which gets the system information. Will you please give me permission to use your CPU Identifier class in my Project ? Regards, Jijo. ________________________________ Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, But today is a present. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink use camel on Linux gretp 10:29 5 Aug '04   Hello, I am trying to detect if my Xeron SMT processor has L3 cache. My OS is Red Hed linux. Where can I get a version of camel for Linux? Thanks Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink HyperThreading (Physical x Logical Processor) leandrobecker 15:19 28 Jun '04   Hello Congratulations. Your code is designed to find each processor with hyperthreading like 2 processors ? I'm running it in a dual Xeon server (with hyperthreading) and Camel says that I have four processors. It do not would say that I have two processors with hyperthreading enabled in both ? Thanks Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) Cache line data Adi Shavit 2:45 16 Jun '04   Hi, Is there a way to find out the data and/or instruction cache line lengths and associativity? This can be very helpful when optimizing code, e.g. loop unrolling. WCPUID can show it so it must be in there somewhere. Thanks a lot, Adi Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Problem with Frequency dum 4:05 26 Mar '04   I have Celeron 333 and, al least for Debug Build, your software identifies it as Generic Pentium 2 333 or 585 or 266. What is the problem? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink How to make CPU ID enable to get? gkey 0:43 27 Feb '04   I am so sorry that I can't get the CPU ID number. How to get it? =========================== Nothing to say, Just do it! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (3 votes)

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