Why is the Q6600 2.4ghz not the world record holder at speed if it is 9.6ghz like i got in answer to post?

here is a link for the world records of overclocked systems http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59753 and according to all the answers i got on a post the Q6600 2.4ghz is really a 9.6ghz cpu,another thing why dosent intel advertise it as 9.6ghz,the reason i ask this question is people on ebay sell systems with the q6600 and say it is a 9.6ghz .|||People on eBay do this because 1/2 of the average users will think it to be better than an identical CPU, and pay them slightly more because they think it is 4 times the speed of any other Q6600.


If people are being that stupid, then others will be that unethical and take advantage of their ignorance.





Speed is not as important as architecture.


No one has yet gotten any one core to hit the same speed's the Pentium 4 could hit, well over 5Ghz.


But it makes little difference if it can't do half as much per cycle as a Core 2 Quad or Phenom at half the speed.|||9.6 would be the clock speeds from each core added together....|||It means all 4 cores put together, in this case 2.6 x 4. They dont advertise it because its much easier to know the speed of each individual core instead of having to divide and do mathematics to find it out. By the way, 9.6 Ghz is not the world record. The record is about 4.2 x 4 which is the record ive seen.|||My QX9770 has the power of two or more of those Q6600's.|||to have it perform as a 9.6 ghz cpu you will need to run applications that use efficiently all 4 cores.|||because that is all the cores added together so it does not count, that would be like me running 100m in 5 seconds but not counting as i have 4 legs (dont really have 4 legs before retards start asking)





anyway, it wouldn't be the record holder if it did count, the Intel Core2 Extreme QX9775, it operates at 3.2 GHZ with quad technology|||The problem that you are looking at is that the dual and quad do not work that way. Adding all the clock speeds on the CPU does not make it that fast. It was the theory by Intel on how it worked, but in reality, it never did.





Now, as for your question, these people on the post are overclocking one or dual cores at an xtreme speed. In other words, some of the links are for a Intel 2.4ghz and they are pumping it to 5.0+ghz. As that is also a dual core, they are most likely pumping both cores to that speed. And that is the xtreme systems.