Amd phenom 9850 quad core drops to 1 3 Ghz why

[bamablond]

Hello, AMD Phenom 9850 quad core drops to 1.3 Ghz on ASUS MB with no ASUS programs installed, why

 

[loneninja]

Read your manual, or do a little google search. It's cool n quiet, been on every AMD cpu for like 5 years now, downclocks your processors when idle. Intel has an almost identical thing called speedstep.