First let me state: I DO HAVE 'COOL & QUIET' DISABLED IN BIOS *ahem*
I built the rig below last year, but never did any benchmarking, diagnostics, or overclocking to notice my problem, I just checked that the bios and Windows were showing the correct processor and memory, untill now which is: my cpu has a multiplier locked in at 4x instead of 14x.
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 920
cpu cooler: tuniq tower 120
MB: ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe (1501 BIOS rev)
Mem: 2x2048 DDR2-1066 PC2-8500 CL5-5-5-15 (G.Skill)
Vid: Radeon HD 4870x2 (Sapphire) (catalyst 10,2)
PS: 700W (SilverStone)
Win7 with high performance power setting
CPU-Z info: AMD Phenom II x4 920
core voltage: 1.056V
core speed: 802.7 MHz
multiplier: x4.0
Bus speed: 200.7 MHz
HT Link: 1806.1
here are some 3d mark vantage scores
3dMark: p5079
gpu score: 6880
cpu score: 2843
cpu test 1: 362.33 plans/s
cpu test 2: 4.55 steps/s
System has never been overclocked (untill current testing), any BIOS cpu/memory settings are default. Built in Feb '09, running approx 55 hrs a week. I have tried changing the clock multiplier in BIOS untill reading this processor has a locked multiplier, also tried raising the core voltage but it stayed the same too. Tried different bios settings, different bios revisions (1501, 1402, 1303): no change (unless the bus speed was increased).
I have also tried the asus AI Booster and Gears tools, and even enabling cool & quiet to see if I could try and get something to change, figuring there might some hidden driver that needed to be installed: still nothing.
Anyone know of something I am missing? Anything I can do to fix this? Any setting on the MB BIOS I missed? If the multiplier is locked on the processor, what could be reducing it? Or do I just have a processor with the multiplier just set wrong and I can't do jack except RMA it?
Only thing left to test is try and borrow or 'buy and return' another processor, though might be hard to get another phenom II x4 (am2+ ver). If it's a MB issue, should this same screwy behavior show up reguardless of the type: AM2, AM2+, AM3, quad or dual cores?
The core voltage not increasing when changed in BIOS does seem a bit odd (I was told stock should be around 1.35V), but would that just be a limiting setting and if the processor does not need the extra, it can step it down?
I built the rig below last year, but never did any benchmarking, diagnostics, or overclocking to notice my problem, I just checked that the bios and Windows were showing the correct processor and memory, untill now which is: my cpu has a multiplier locked in at 4x instead of 14x.
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 920
cpu cooler: tuniq tower 120
MB: ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe (1501 BIOS rev)
Mem: 2x2048 DDR2-1066 PC2-8500 CL5-5-5-15 (G.Skill)
Vid: Radeon HD 4870x2 (Sapphire) (catalyst 10,2)
PS: 700W (SilverStone)
Win7 with high performance power setting
CPU-Z info: AMD Phenom II x4 920
core voltage: 1.056V
core speed: 802.7 MHz
multiplier: x4.0
Bus speed: 200.7 MHz
HT Link: 1806.1
here are some 3d mark vantage scores
3dMark: p5079
gpu score: 6880
cpu score: 2843
cpu test 1: 362.33 plans/s
cpu test 2: 4.55 steps/s
System has never been overclocked (untill current testing), any BIOS cpu/memory settings are default. Built in Feb '09, running approx 55 hrs a week. I have tried changing the clock multiplier in BIOS untill reading this processor has a locked multiplier, also tried raising the core voltage but it stayed the same too. Tried different bios settings, different bios revisions (1501, 1402, 1303): no change (unless the bus speed was increased).
I have also tried the asus AI Booster and Gears tools, and even enabling cool & quiet to see if I could try and get something to change, figuring there might some hidden driver that needed to be installed: still nothing.
Anyone know of something I am missing? Anything I can do to fix this? Any setting on the MB BIOS I missed? If the multiplier is locked on the processor, what could be reducing it? Or do I just have a processor with the multiplier just set wrong and I can't do jack except RMA it?
Only thing left to test is try and borrow or 'buy and return' another processor, though might be hard to get another phenom II x4 (am2+ ver). If it's a MB issue, should this same screwy behavior show up reguardless of the type: AM2, AM2+, AM3, quad or dual cores?
The core voltage not increasing when changed in BIOS does seem a bit odd (I was told stock should be around 1.35V), but would that just be a limiting setting and if the processor does not need the extra, it can step it down?