Intel doing something with the clock??

[OokiiNeko]

Anyone heard about Intel disguising the Mhz, Ghz speeds of its CPUs?

TSC, which as I understand counts the CPU clock cycles, is getting changed somehow. Anyone with more knowledge, educate.



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[Accord99]

It is a fix to allow for programs that rely on the TSC for timing to not break when the CPU frequency changes dynamically, which currently occurs for A64 CPUs with C&Q enabled and Pentium-M CPUs with SpeedStep enabled.

 

[Wicked2010]

Well that was a crappy answer... in english for the poor fellow please.