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Amd phenom II x4 945 underclocked...

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I recently finished my first build and was expecting good things from my system:
AMD Phenom II x4 945
Gigabyte Ga-MA790XT-UD4P
G. Skill 4 GB ddr3 1333
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 superclocked edition
Maxtor 6l300S0 300gb 1.5gb/s HD
Corsair CMPSU 850tx power supply
Vista Home Premium 64bit

The cpu core clock is currently at 801 MHz and the multiplier is 4x..... this seems extremely low, what can i do to solve this issue? (i ran AMD overdrive and the performance settings were set at default and these are the numbers im getting)http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2730/amdoverdrive.jpg

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Check to see if Cool N' Quiet is enabled in the bios. If it is, it is lowering your multiplier to save power.

Reply to CooLWoLF

CooLWoLF wrote :

Check to see if Cool N' Quiet is enabled in the bios. If it is, it is lowering your multiplier to save power.


it was enabled, but i disabled it. yet i still have the same numbers...

Reply to modrew32

You probably don't have the latest bios for your system, in which case it will be reported as an unknown cpu somewhere. Regardless, 4x and 800mhz are the cool n quiet numbers that the system defaults to when not under load.

Download something like prime95 and run it while checking the numbers you get on overdrive.

Reply to jennyh

Try something like CPU-Z while using a stress testing program, i.e Prime95 or OCCT.

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