Booth Martin wrote:

1-If overclocking is a good thing, then why don't the sellers see the hardware at the higher ratings?

I don't know if it's still the case, but I was told in the past that a given chip had already failed testing at higher-than-marked speed. That is, the CPU was intended to run at 4 GHz, failed at that speed, passed at 3 GHz and was marked appropriately.
--buck

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