{"id":42393,"date":"2022-07-18T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=42393"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:12:22","slug":"cpu-x-cpu-z-for-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/cpu-x-cpu-z-for-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"CPU-X – Gather PC Hardware Specs in Linux with CPU-Z Style User Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those want to check PC hardware specs in Linux, CPU-X is a good choice for user switching from Microsoft Windows.<\/p>\n

It’s a free open-source system profiling and monitoring application, that looks quite similar to CPU-Z for Windows. With it, you can check your CPU specification, vendor, codename, clocks, and L1\/L2\/L3 caches.<\/p>\n

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It also shows the motherboard manufacturer, model, BIOS brand and version, etc. As well, it shows graphic card vendor, driver, GPU chip, and basic operating system up-time, and monitor memory usage for you.<\/p>\n

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Benchmark is also available for running in either single or multiple cores. However, it does not provide a list of other CPU scores to compare with.<\/p>\n

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How to Install CPU-X in Linux:<\/h3>\n

The software is available in the official repositories of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian Linux. User may simply search for and install it via your system package manager.<\/p>\n

For Ubuntu user, simply search for and install it in Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n

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CPU-X in Ubuntu repository is a little old. For the latest version with bug-fixes and updated database. Go download the “AppImage” from releases page:<\/p>\n

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Download CPU-X AppImage<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Then, right-click on it and go ‘Properties’ to enable executable permission. And, finally click run the AppImage to launch the tool.<\/p>\n

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For those want to check PC hardware specs in Linux, CPU-X is a good choice for user switching from Microsoft Windows. It’s a free open-source system profiling and monitoring application, that looks quite similar to CPU-Z for Windows. With it, you can check your CPU specification, vendor, codename, clocks, and L1\/L2\/L3 caches. It also shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-42393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-system-info"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}