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Anybody know anything about Lab Burst Mode?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccn_t6V2DKQ

Specifically, I'm wondering if any other motherboard vendors (aside from MSI) skew their benchmarks in this fashion. Couldn't figure out why AMD's A8-3870K benched so high in passmark. Apparently, with regard to this particular MSI board, the RTC is slowed while overclocking.

All synthetic benchmarks that I am familiar with are a function of performance relating to time, so the resulting scores are according to the time elapsed during testing. This Lab Burst Mode feature would seem to over-inflate these results significantly.

reminds me of what nvidia did on their FX lines of cards with having the driver "cheat" for Physx. I forget the whole details since I skipped the whole generation, but I just remember that the driver wasn't rendering the full scene correctly and had artifacts in the rendering process due to the drivers. It was mainly used to bump up the 3dmark scores.

It's unacceptable. There's enough ambiguity in benchmarks already.