Solved System info says Intel, Powershell says AMD. Which is it?

[charlie22]

Have I misunderstood all along? Are these not different? Are some Intel Core CPUs built with AMD architecture?
I have been assuming the info given by both of these methods came from actually querying the hardware, so if I put in a different processor now and started the machine up the info would show whatever I put in. No? See screenshot. Same image on imgur http://i.imgur.com/NQhaPkg.png just in case.

 

[MilesAhead]

What does Speccy say? If I had to guess I'd go against PowerShell. No particularly good reason other than that I haven't used it and am therefore suspicious.

 

[alphanumeric]

AMD has the license for the 64 bit instruction set. The "AMD64" just means your CPU is a 64 bit CPU and is using that instruction set, or code if you want to think about it that way. You have an Intel CPU.

 

[hawkman]

try this

Hi Charlie,
if youve tried speccy have a look at CPUid, its free as well.


Roy

 

[charlie22]

Thanks all. I'm marking this as solved. Had never heard of Speccy or CPU-Z before today.