i5-2500K/2600K batch number and o/c results

[famish99]

One problem with 3D mark is when your processor is unlocked it reports the wrong freq. I did two tests @ 5000 with my 2600K

3D Mark 11.

Vantage

Both reported CPU @ 3400.

Not sure what the 2500K reports.

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