Very strange problem

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When I run 3DMark06, its CPU tests consistently lock up and freeze every time for half a minute before it resumes. As you can imagine, this lowers my CPU score by quite a bit. The strange part is that this seems to be linked to the core clock speed my video card (a 7600 GT) is running at. It's stable everywhere else at 600 mhz, but the 3DMark06 CPU tests freeze at that speed. If I lower the clock speed to 595 mhz, the CPU test no longer locks up.

I'm wondering how the video card core clock speed has anything to do with this, since the CPU tests are supposed to test the CPU and are not particularly graphics intensive.

 

[gtjr_ph]

if it will not lock up in games why bother , its not important