Rated at?

[40sTheme]

I have a Dual Core 2.8 GHz Pentium D on a 800MHz FSB. What's strange is that everything says that it's 'rated at 4.2GHz'. What does that mean?
Yeah, i'm a newb...

 

[Ika]

what is "everything"?

 

[40sTheme]

Any program that detects your setup. For instance, System Requirements lab, games, 3dMark, etc.