Well, if you download the Microsoft SDK, then this answer might
work (though I haven't looked):

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Prog..._20131201.html

Outside of the suggestion listed above in this thread, I don't
think VB can natively retrieve the CPU speed. The way I've
always learned to do it is through a calculation in assembly
(which you could do inline in C/C++ I'm sure).