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BIOS UPDATE, AMD PII 955 CORE SPEED, VISTA. please help!! :-)

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Anonymous   08-05-2009 at 07:12:19 PM

i just installed the 64 bit edition of the vista home premium OS on my system that has a GA-790FXT-UD5P mobo, with a F4 bios version. at the system information at VISTA it recogizes the 955 CPU but saya its working at 1.61GHz. and the device Manager i can see the 4 cores, but the question is dose the system uses them all? or there is some problem with the recognition?? i have red that ther is a nee to update my bios so that vista will see the hole 3.2GHz, is it true??
(you can read about that at this thread --> http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/527989.aspx)
and if so , i saw 2 versions of bios f3m and f5 ate GIGABYTES site, wich one to use???

thank you very much for your help!!!

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blargh88   08-05-2009 at 09:09:39 PM
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I think it's AMD's "cool n' quite" which throttles down the CPU when not in use

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OvrClkr   08-05-2009 at 09:17:56 PM
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Disable "cool n quiet" in the bios, save settings and boot......

------------------------------ 550 @ 4.0 Ghz 1.425v
BFG GTX 260 (216)
4GB G.Skill @ 960MHz
Thermaltake TP 850w
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Anonymous   08-05-2009 at 09:49:05 PM
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i did, still it shows only 1.61Ghz...

:(

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Anonymous   08-05-2009 at 09:51:59 PM
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maybe i need to update my bios version to f5 ot f3m???

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Anonymous   08-05-2009 at 10:41:26 PM
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FOUND THE REASON.... JUST UPDATED to bios f5 and it says 3.2GHz....!!

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OvrClkr   08-05-2009 at 11:07:17 PM
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Yea, I was about to let ya know that you needed to update ur bios before you do anything.....

------------------------------ 550 @ 4.0 Ghz 1.425v
BFG GTX 260 (216)
4GB G.Skill @ 960MHz
Thermaltake TP 850w
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