[SOLVED] AMD Phenom II X4 955 rapidly changing from 800 mhz to 3200 mhz.

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That is due to AMD's cool and quiet technology witch lowers clocks and voltage whenever no load is being put on the CPU. Small background processes can put frequent short loads onto the cpu causing the back and forth in clock speeds.

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That is due to AMD's cool and quiet technology witch lowers clocks and voltage whenever no load is being put on the CPU. Small background processes can put frequent short loads onto the cpu causing the back and forth in clock speeds.
 
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