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I am a bit confused as to how CPU-Z can confirm anything.
Doesn't it just read values that has been written to the chip and present the to the user? How does it confirm anything?
I think in this case "confirm" just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
I get what you mean, for me a confirmation would be if the CPU meta data was signed with an Intel key that could be verified.