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No....I'm running a 5820k at 4.4 for a daily clock, and disable cores and run 2 of them at 5.0, and it'll add almost 100 points....doesn't have to be a bottleneck to make gains by adding CPU clock. Now, you won't gain anything in the graphics test on Firestrike, unless you're running an AMD processor, but the Unigine benchmarks both, especially Valley, will benefit from higher CPU core clocks.
The minimum fps ranges are a byproduct of that....most of the time during my "testing runs" at my daily clock, the fps will drop down under 20....during my scoring runs, it'll hold 25+ usually.