My very first PC was a pentium P90 which had a clock speed of 90mhz...

Then came a 233mhz... (clock speed 233mhz)
then a 550mhz.... (clock speed 550mhz)
a 1.33ghz.... (clock speed 1.33mhz)
a 1.66ghz.... (clock speed 1.66mhz)

At this time i was into overclocking and using good equipment could get my Athlon 1.66 to 2ghz....

Then i had a laptop for a couple of years and lost touch with the latest technology.

When i returned to PC's i found that manufacturers were claiming speeds of 2.4ghz, 3ghz etc etc....

yet unless im mistaken they dont seem to be running at these speeds...

all of the older systems ive had above were the speed of the processor, yet like now, i have an Athlon XP64 3.2ghz processor which runs at 2ghz....

Somebody please explain what the **** is this all about....

Thanks.

I'd been meaning to ask someone for a while...............