Amd phenom II x4 945 underclocked...

[modrew32]

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)

 

[CooLWoLF]

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

 

[modrew32]

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...

 

[jennyh]

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.

 

[sanchz]

BIOS problem.

 

[AKM880]

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