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Originally posted by ringo2143z:
The clock speed is bios controlled. Before with '98, the PC idled at 32C, now it's somewhere around 36C, suggesting a bit of overclocking. Don't get me wrong, I've dabbled with the CPU speed before, it's just I have to run it at 400MHz nowadays to get other things to run (like my CD-RW). I've checked the speed with CPUID, DirectX 8 and SiSoft Sandra 2001, and they all report 412MHz. Temps are monitored with a HW monitor which came with the M-board, which hasn't been wrong so far.
True an overclocked CPU will run hotter than it did when set at its default speed but that doesn't mean any CPU running hotter is overclocked. You changed your OS and the CPU is working harder than it did before, therefore--hotter. More speed will equal hotter temperatures but hotter temperatures do not define higher speed.