Ads watchdog objects to 9.2Ghz PC

Pwned!

Pwned!

By zeevro on 30 Sep 2009

Oh dear!

"Valatech's responded that it believed 'that overall clock speeds could be calculated based on the combined power of individual cores and that four 2.3 GHz cores resulted in a combined speed of 9.2 GHz.'"

So that means I've got a 12.8 GHz PC. Whoo-hoo.

Makes me feel slightly better over the amount that it cost me.

By Lacrobat on 30 Sep 2009

maybe they shouldn't be building computers if that's their understanding of how to calculate clock speed

By TimoGunt on 30 Sep 2009

Which is it to be...

Either deliberately misleading or woefully incompetent to build a computer. Any other suggestions?

By halsteadk on 30 Sep 2009

Still doing it

There's one on eBay today by the same company. A 4GHz PC. Its actually a 2GHz Intel Exxx CPU. They should not be allowed to do this. Maybe I should point out the 'motorway' to them. If 4 lanes of cars are travelling at 70mph the speed isnt 280mph. Its simply 4 lanes of 70mph.

By pveater on 1 Oct 2009

Go to their Ebay listings for CPUs and you get several entries like: "INTEL CORE i7 870 - 11.72 GHz QUAD CORE PROCESSOR"

By halsteadk on 1 Oct 2009

Rubbish

Anyone who believes that they can achieve 9.2 Ghz from a CPU should stop licking the windows and go get dressed...foolish!

By phils1969 on 2 Oct 2009

Hmmm Partialy true....

pveater you must be useless in maths and in physics!!!!!
The example with the cars......
Let's say that one lane of cars traveling at 70mph allows 100 cars to go pass point "A" every minute. If we have 4 lanes of cars at 70mph....how many cars would be going trough point "A" every minute.
The answer is of course 400 cars, which is equal to one lane of cars traveling at 280mph.
Now with the processors...Its all about processing power/capability!!
ie. how many calculations per second they can make.
*In theory* a 2ghz dual core processor should have the same processing power as a 4ghz single core or twice the power of a 2ghz single core. In reality it is only 70% faster than the 2ghz single core...so comparable to a 3.4ghz single core.
I'm not making it up...read this.
Page 10 second paragraph of the following document by IBM.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/wp_D
ual_Core_072505.pdf

By kabatza on 14 Oct 2009