What is effective clock? Is this normal?

[SloppyMcFloppy]

What is effective clock? Is this normal? Just booted into Windows and opened up Firefox and heading to this forums to post.
From HWInfo reading, effective clock is totally different than Core # clock reported. Is this normal? Core # Clock around 4.3ghz - 4.4ghz while effective clock is below 2ghz.

 

[Zach]

Yes it is normal...

Havent you read this? Its just over there next to where you created this thread...

FEATURE - Effective clock vs instant (discrete) clock

It has become a common practice for several years to report instant (discrete) clock values for CPUs. This method is based on knowledge of the actual bus clock (BCLK) and sampling of core ratios at specific time points. The resulting clock is then a simple result of ratio * BCLK. Such approach...

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