Amd phenom II x4 955 Black Edition 3200mhz running on 800MHZ?

Ok so heres the specs that matter:
I have as stated in the thread a Amd phenom II x4 955 Black Edition 3200mhz processor
A Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P mainb
4x 2 gig OCZ memory ( OCZ3N1800SR4GK, as stated to be supported on the gigabyte site for this mobo)
and a 600 w power suply (500 req)

On the CPU-Z link listed here for overclocking http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] spx?i=3551

The stock core speed should be 3.2GHz (duh) with 1.344 V core voltage.

My own List on CPU-Z ( witch i aquired becous the system was slow)
shows @stock the core voltage at 0.93V (i did put it up to 1.355 to no avail)
The core speed it reads however is 803.9 MHz the rest of the settings are the same (asside from the voltage witch i did edit)

My question is simple as such, why is my core running so damn slow, my only gues would be that the memory is currently dragging it, but it couldent be the type since i did check the compatibilitylist.
For info:
My memory has as per CPU-Z the following readouts:
Dram frquency 669.8 Mhz
Fsbram 3:10
Cas 8
Ras to cas 8
Ras 8
tRas 27
tRC 33
CR 2

I never used anny overclocking settings (par of simple and safe settings) and have as such no experiance in such matters, witch is why this confounds me so.
Question is, should i ajust some settings to fix this, or was my CPU simple DOA and should i start shouting at some well meening kid on the phone

Anny help in this matter is greatly apriciated.
I appologise if anny of what i said is ether stupid or misspelled, im dutch and havent put this threw a spellcheck

sounds like its running in power state mode can download this utility AMDPwrMon to change between low med high or
windows vista control panel power options you can also download amd overdrive to overclock your cpu in windows

Update your motherboards BIOS, without proper BIOS support Phenom II chips get stuck at the downclocked 800mhz setting.

I'm new to bios, what bios did you update to get you cpu to run at 3.2, because I'm having the same problem ?

Thanks.

I am and I'm not buying gigabyte again, gigabyte must know of this problem , but there is no easy fix.

yea nothing is actually wrong with the board or the chip. you just have to update bios with is not uncommon. just a matter of knowing what your buying and doing.

Alright so I'm having the same problem but I have no idea how to update the BIOS... I've been looking around online and nothing, I get more and more confused with every site I see. Can someone explain this in n00b language for me.

Hi mate,

you need to go to your motherboard manufacturer website, then you need to find out the exact name of your motherboard as well as the revision(if you look at the bottom left of the actual board it should tell you the revision on the side), then download the latest bios. Extract this to a flash drive/memory pen. Keeping the flash drive in, restart your computer, and during startup there will be a key you have to press(usually delete or F2) which will take you to the BIOS, now if your using a gigabyte board there is an option to open QFlash by pressing F8 or similar. If not there should be an option to update bios in the menu. When you find the utility select the flash drive, then the directory which you extracted the download to. Then select the new file.

I hope that helps, and also that it was too patronising.

WillMagic

you at an internet cafe? i figured you'd have an uber l33t linux box

Internet cafe = free internet...