Thursday, February 3, 2011

Dedicated Hosting offering Intel Core 2 Quad @ 6GHz. Is this real?

Hi, sorry if this is a very dumb question, but...

I just got an offer from a dedicated hosting company, offering me a box with "2 Core 2 Quad processors @ 6GHz"

I didn't know we could get 6GHz, and some googling turned out a bunch of people getting that, after overclocking like crazy, which seems to confirm my suspicion.

Are there hostings offering 6GHz CPUs, or are these people outright lying to me?

Thank you!

  • There are no known Intel CPU running at that frequency, and I don't think there will ever be, as the actual tendency is to lower clock frequency while multiplying cores.

    Either there's an error on the offer, or they think four cores running at 1,5 Ghz make a total frequency of 6 Ghz (which is, of course, a really stupid idea).

    Daniel Magliola : Thank you, that's what I thought. I also think they may've chosen to multiply the frequency by the number of cores, but I wanted to check. Thanks!
    From Massimo
  • 2 cores times 3.0 Ghz = 6.0Ghz!

    This is what you get when the ad copy is written entirely by marketing. No, there are no commercial 6.0ghz parts available from Intel (as of yet).

    Daniel Magliola : Yes, i'm afraid that's what happened, but I wanted to double check before insulting them :-)

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