a question for the peoples

on the "can you run it" web site, some times i choose a game and after it scans it shows my pc info and it says CPU: core 2 duo @ 3.0GHz and then under that it says CPU SPEED: core 2 duo rated at 9.0GHz. what does rated at 9.0GHz mean? if any one wants to see what im talking about go to this website http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest and choose fallout 3 from the games list and look at minimum requirements info page. it gives your system info vs minimum spec and your system info vs recommended spec. if any knows what that means, please explain and thanks. its not that important but i would just like to know. peace!

I'm guessing they're trying to explain that a quad at 2.7 GHz is better than a single core at 2.7 GHz, so they multiply the GHz by 4. No idea how they got to 9 GHz in your case though. Anyway, the method seems to be very common in Europe. I got a Chip magazine from an airport in Switzerland recently and all the PC ads are like that. They say stuff like Q6600 (9.6 GHz) and so on. Of course, that's 4 cores at 2.4 GHz each. Adding up the GHz only makes sense if you encode DVDs or do other stuff that actually uses 4 cores at 100%, but they do it anyway.

Edit: you do realize you put your PC at risk if you let sites like that install ActiveX or whatever they do, right? I hope you've got an anti-virus program. Download Spybot and give it a try too.

LOL, nice work