On Saturday 04 December 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:22:21 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Because the mhz displayed there are misleading. cpuinfo does not show > > at which speeds it is acutally running if there is any oc/uc involved. > > An overclocked cpu might show 2Ghz while it is running at 2.3GHz > > That's not true here: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 15 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz > stepping : 6 > cpu MHz : 2698.534 > cache size : 4096 KB > > This is a 2.4GHz processor running at 2.7GHz, jut like cpuinfo says.
there is a might for a reason