It's the same principle that Intel use when rating their chips - e.g. ones that can't hit 3GHz are marked as 2.6GHz, and ones where one half of the L2 cache fail tests are sold with 2Mb cache.
Of course, you could be lucky and get a 3GHz part that has been marked as 2.6GHz because the yield of 3Ghz chips is greater than the demand...
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Sounds sensible to me
It's the same principle that Intel use when rating their chips - e.g. ones that can't hit 3GHz are marked as 2.6GHz, and ones where one half of the L2 cache fail tests are sold with 2Mb cache.
Of course, you could be lucky and get a 3GHz part that has been marked as 2.6GHz because the yield of 3Ghz chips is greater than the demand...