quick question on dmesg output

The following is an edited output of dmesg, for a dual Xeon running 2.6.9: Detected 1196.514 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 2383.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=1191936) CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz stepping 09 I'm a bit confused why a 2GHz chip gets detected as a 1.2 GHz cpu. Is this

quick question on dmesg output

The following is an edited output of dmesg, for a dual Xeon running 2.6.9: Detected 1196.514 MHz processor. snip Calibrating delay loop... 2383.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=1191936) snip CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz stepping 09 I'm a bit confused why a 2GHz chip gets detected as a 1.2 GHz cpu. Is