Dedicated Hosting offering Intel Core 2 Quad @ 6GHz. Is this real?

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Published on 2010-06-07T16:19:30Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 16:23 UTC
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Hi, sorry if this is a very dumb question, but...

I just got an offer from a dedicated hosting company, offering me a box with "2 Core 2 Quad processors @ 6GHz"

I didn't know we could get 6GHz, and some googling turned out a bunch of people getting that, after overclocking like crazy, which seems to confirm my suspicion.

Are there hostings offering 6GHz CPUs, or are these people outright lying to me?

Thank you!

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