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This is such a weird requirement you could literally build a pc with an old ass cpu at 2ghz and it would be slower than a modern pc at 1.6ghz this doesnt make sense. If theres a way to fake the clock speed…. And just say you upgraded it. On windows you can just edit the registry to show a completely different cpu
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0
Reminds me of when the Athlon 64 came out! The Pentium 4 was destroying Athlon processors in performance but it ran so hot hitting 2, 3, 4GHz… Then the Athlon 64 drops and being able to do more instructions per clock cycle, ran at a like 30+% “slower” clock speed but performed significantly better. Then the 64x2 comes out and murders the Pentium D. Things were bad for Intel until they plopped out the Core series and THAT rocked.
But yah, if I clocked my CPU now down under 2GHz, it would still perform incredibly for day-to-day tasks! A requirement for an SSD OS drive is my main requirement for any computer now.
8 core intels with sub 2Ghz is actually pretty common, I wonder if they factor core count into this?