Quote Originally Posted by famish99 View Post
It's not that it reports the wrong freq, but that's what your base clock before turbo is. It's also possible that 3dmark isn't able to stress the clock all the way up.

Nevertheless, the need for a non-loop intensive stress test is necessary to make sure you don't get chokes from the decode. I assure you this isn't an easy job; there are teams of people in semiconductor companies involved with just creating tests to break the system, a team which I am a member of
Agreed.
The reason I mentioned this was my 875K, 980x and 2600K all report the wrong clocks. The i7 950 reported the correct OC clock. I don't use turbo in the other chips.