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WOF: Do you know what your CPU's clocked at?

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On July 22, 2011, 11:42 PM

Considering TechSpot's audience mix of techies, hardware enthusiasts, IT pros and gamers, the question above sounds overly simplistic, if not insulting, but is it? Over the last decade, the MHz measurement in your PC's processor has lost much of its meaning, in part because it's no longer an absolute reflection of performance, but that may not the end of it.

For example, I know I'm running a Core i7 870 processor in my workstation, but I have no clue what exact frequency the CPU is running at. I don't think that would have been the case 5 or 10 years ago when I ran my overclocked Celeron 300a or Athlon dual-core processor. Back then I cared about clock and bus speeds, RAM timings, and other details that today I barely pay attention to before upgrading to a new platform.

With devices like smartphones and tablets invading the consumer space in sheer numbers, bringing potential irrelevancy to component specifications, do you think this is a trend that will inevitably hit computers sooner or later?

How about yourself, off the top of your head (DON'T LOOK IT UP), do you know what's your PC's CPU clock speed? Discuss.

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  1. I have 6 mediocre computers. It's a damned good thing I saved all the CPU boxes and left the stickers on the eMachine and laptop.

    2@2.2Ghz,. 2.6Ghz, 2.8Ghz, 2.93 Ghz, and 3.06Ghz. Does it really matter which is which?

  2. Phenom 2x6 1090T @ 4.0

  3. That answer won't come up until the "Double Jeopardy" round. And you had to screw it up by giving the question ahead of time.

    Oh honestly...I just can't do anything to please you!

  4. Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.9Ghz..

  5. i7 920 @ 2.8 Ghz, HT on

  6. 2600k at 5Ghz

    100 x 50

  7. A pentium 4 @ 2.8 Ghz and also a core 2 duo @ 1.66 Ghz

  8. Core i7 870 @4.0Ghz on P55-UD6, Hyper212+ at 29°C IDLE and 48°C Full Load hehehe...

  9. i5-760 @ 4.0, and when Turbo boost is on, I don't bother checking lol.

  10. Core i5 2500K @ 4.33 Ghz

  11. i7 920 at stock speed. Which is always said to be 2.66 GHz, yet windows, BIOS, etc always says 2.67 GHz.

    So now, I don't know my exact frequency. My guess it's 2.6 recurring.

  12. amd am3 dual core 550 unlocked to amd quad core b50 3.1ghz overclocked to 3.5ghz quad core stable. running 4gb 800mhz ddr2 dual channel centon memory on Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P board, with HIS 512mb amd ati. 4850 and two sata drives one running windows xp pro sp3 and one running windows 7. all that and i didn't have to look any of it up i do care about clock speed as well number of cores on a cpu. i planning upgradeing to amd 6 core 1100T

  13. the computer I'm typing from is an Intel e5200, it's stock frequency was 2.5GHz, it's being pushed to 3.499 at the moment. I know this because last month I was moving the parts to an old case so I reset the overclock settings to stock, redoing the overclock afterwards.

    The computer I game on is an i5 2500k (it was on sale, no point in getting the non-k version), and that, if I remember correctly is 3.3Ghz.

    Poppa, did I do well?

  14. phenom II x4 955BE @ 3.5Ghz

  15. Tandy 386 which I still use today.

  16. QuadCore Intel Core i7-960 @ 4146.1 MHz (original 320 MHz)

  17. Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6GHz

  18. Earlier i wrote: Guest phenom II x4 955BE @ 3.5Ghz

    But I saw that nearly everybody is pushing their cpu further so I overclocked it to 3.8Ghz

  19. i7 920 @ 3.8 Ghz

  20. Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13 GHz

  21. Q9400 @ 3.33G (417 FSB) at the moment at stock VID. (3.4G /425FSB is the highest stable @ stock 1.2375v)

    Core i7 950 4.25G (185 BCLK) @ 1.36v

    Is the $200 question, Do you know your Ram divider?

    Easy, 1:1 and 2:8

    How about CPU termination voltage or PLL ?

  22. intel core i3-530@2.93ghz

    intel pentium dual core e5400@2.7ghz

    intel celeron 1.7ghz

    intel pentium 166mhz mmx

  23. Pentium Dual core E2140 @ 1.60 GHz (no OC)

  24. Without looking it up, I'd guess around 2.3-2.4GHz per core on my interim Q6600 quad.

  25. AMD Phenom II X4 970 @3.5GHz, 2x2GB Kingston HpyerX 1600MHz

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