Can anyone confirm how we know for sure that the Pentium 4 core clock really runs at 1.4Ghz/1.5Ghz and it's not just a marketing numbers game? Does anyone outside of Intel actually do / know how to do tests to verify these numbers?
Given that it's a completely new architecture, surely it's easy to stick 1.4Ghz on the bottom-end chip and then get away with pumping up the Ghz over the next few years.
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Can anyone confirm how we know for sure that the Pentium 4 core clock really runs at 1.4Ghz/1.5Ghz and it's not just a marketing numbers game? Does anyone outside of Intel actually do / know how to do tests to verify these numbers? Given that it's a completely new architecture, surely it's easy to stick 1.4Ghz on the bottom-end chip and then get away with pumping up the Ghz over the next few years.