HWMonitor says CPU is running on 8.6 ghz! How is this possible?

xdfake944

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Hello guys,

I noticed on HWMonitor that my pc isn't running like it should ( or it is a bug from HWMonitor) but my cpu core clock went up to 9ghz?
See the screenshot: https://gyazo.com/b1e6e1426c3ce140020b8e095d7e6398

How can it be 8.6ghz an 5.2 ghz and stuff while my CPU ( intel core i7 950) is not overclocked and the base speed is 3.1 ghz?

I hope you can clear things up for me.
 
Solution
If it really was going up to those speeds you would be crashing quite often. So the program must be incorrectly reporting the data to you.