Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
No he clarified himself later.He meant as if the chip was at 80% of it's efficiency at 2Ghz(due to many constraints,some he mentioned to be ES releated-IMC,HT speeds etc.;some are BIOS related).
After chip gets all of its parts above 2.4GHz(IMC and L3),the rest of the core starts to act the way it was designed(optimal throughput in the appropriate sections)
This makes ZERO sense.

In the history of CPUs you cannot show me a chip that had higher IPC at higher clocks vs. lower clocks (assuming ALL other factors are the same).