3dmark Vantage CPU score unusually high.

either that or it suddenly became a tiny god.

I have a e4600 @ 2.8ghz. it should not be getting around 25000, that is higher than a stock core i7 gets. Its not a fluke, i ran it multiple times and even reinstalled vantage.

I looked it up and my processor should instead be getting around a 5000 vantage score, so what gives? :?

It's probably physX.Luminouslight

Click on Options and in the bottom right hand corner there is an Option called Disable PPU.

A PPU is a Physics Processing Unit. 3DMark uses PhysX, which is proprietary to Nvidia, which is ran on the video card to simulate physics. Disable PPU in the options will disable the use of the GPU in the CPU tests for physic calculations.