Phenom X4 955 BE Clock Speed.

At idle and with Cool and Quiet enabled then that would be the correct down clocked speed. (power savings)

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Also to be make sure everything is okay, run a game or a lot of applications and then navigate to CPU-Z and check core speed.

Also you might wanna try Prime95 for stressing the CPU.

Cool and Quiet is off and i tried stressing the cpu but the clock speed is pretty stable. I upgraded from my pentium 4 and kept my old 450w power supply, could that be the problem ?

That shouldn't be it. Power Supply should not do that. Run many applications at once and make sure that your BIOS settings are correct. (multiplier set at 16 x 200FSB for a 955.

I'd like to point out that the multiplier in the CPU-Z is set to 7.0.....not sure if that's erroneous, but that would certainly explain why you're only at 1400.

EDIT: Okay, not set to...reading, saying, whatever :<

Just meant to say that it looks like that's the source of the problem. If the multiplier comes up and the clock remains the same, I will be extremely surprised. The 200 MHz base clock with a 7x multiplier adds up to 1400MHz. Didn't mean to offend.

Haha, yeah, not offended. Just saying, trust the BIOS more than CPU-Z.

@OP, go to your BIOS and set the multiplier manually.

Yeah, it's set to 7x .. and the max allowed multiplier is 11x .. im i just wanna know weather it will harm my board or not if i crank it up ..

Can you post your motherboard again what you describe in the beginning does not exist in a web search? Maybe a shot of the motherboard Tab in CPU-Z!

Problem resolved, basically if i select the auto multiplier in bios it ran at 3.2Ghz. But for some reason it kept going back to 7x when the computer started, so i manually set it to 16x ( You can scroll down in the bios, how silly of me :$ ) and now the cores are working properly. Thank you.

Best answer selected by mukit14.

Thanks for the best answer bud!