AMD misguiding processor speed?

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June 1st, 2007, 07:51 PM

amahmood

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AMD misguiding processor speed?

How come my CPU is AMD(Sempron) 2600+ but system properties says it is 1.84GH?

I thought perhaps this +2600 has nothing to do with the processor speed which in this case it would be very misguiding but when checked ebay I noticed that many sellers consider this number as the processor speed.

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June 4th, 2007, 09:18 AM

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The 2600+ is what is called the Performance Index, the 1.833 GHz is called Clock Speed
If you do sum research on it your will get a better understanding on it.

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o0MattE0o agrees: I agree with you but it is misguiding for the avarage users. (none technical)

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