[STEAM] Intel's new CPUs may have faster clock speeds, but there's a catch

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Intel Arrow Lake gaming CPUs looks set to have higher base clock speeds than the company's current processors, according to a new *****. The base clock is the frequency at which a processor ostensibly runs when it's processing everyday tasks, and not being pushed hard by intensive jobs such as gaming or video encoding, and the latest information shows this clock speed could be significantly higher on Intel's new CPUs than on its current ones. There's a catch, though.

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, it's the boost clock (or turbo clock) that you really want to be higher, rather than the base clock, as that's the maximum speed the CPU will hit when you're gaming. Recent rumors pointed to Intel

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s being lower than those of current

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14th gen CPUs, but it looks as though the base clocks will now be higher.

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