Hi I have recently been thinking about buying some new hardware to my PC. I looked on internet for some good specs and found a couple of interesting parts i bought that should work together well, with no problems. I bought: CPU = AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 Ghz Motherboard = Biostar T series TA790GX 128M GPU = Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SOC (Super Overclocked) RAM = 3GB DDR2 Im running all this on Windows XP Black Edition v 8.2 The CPU is a AM2+/AM3 socket which is compatible with the Motherboard as it has the AM2+ socket, to that i have 3GB of DDR2 RAM and the GTX 460 SOC at GDDR5. As i said before, i made sure the parts will work together with no issues, i spent a lot of time looking up the hardware on the internet checking the compatibility of the parts. When i first ran the system on those specs, i realized that it was all running quite slow for the hardware that i bought, I installed a few programs like CPU-Z, GPU-Z, ETC. to monitor the speed the system is running at and soon realized that my Processor is running on 800mhz when it should be running at 3.2Ghz. I ran few programs like PRIME95 to see if the CPU is running at that speed all the time or it is saving energy but the speed doesn't change. When playing games i hardly get even 30fps in most cases. I looked for a solution to this and found out that the BIOS could be outdated or CPU is running on Cool 'n' quiet mode. The CnQ mode was enabled, i disabled it with no effect on speed, i tried updating the BIOS from the Biostar website but still with no effect. I found a program called "CPU-Tweaker" which enables me to speed up the cores but only up to 3.0Ghz as if i go over that, my PC crashes and i get the Blue screen of death. But i would still prefer my CPU to run naturally at stock speed. Please help me, i don't want all that money wasted without being able to fix it. Thanks in advance
I have encountered this issue before but updateing the bios ussually fixes it. but also i have never used this proccessor with an am2+ board. I would recomend returning your board and geting either an asus or a msi AM3 socket board. either of these manufactures am3 boards should work out of the box with no bios update needed.
Before returning the board, I'd check the following: -CPU heatsink installation -Any clock-throttling options are disabled in BIOS -Use the latest version of CPU-Z
