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
Well, I've only understood half of what you have said so far, but thank you very much for shedding some light on this. I've noticed the peculiarities of stress testing on this new chip and I'm frankly a little lost as to when/how to call an overclock stable.

I see people on other forums hammering their chips with voltage trying to get Prime95 to pass. I on the other hand am holding off until this is sorted, it just doesn't make sense to me that on the 1366 platform the linpack test was the killer (highest load) and now on the 1155 platform that has miraculously switched around and now Prime95 is the killer.