AMD 64 3000+

[B1adez]

Ok I recently bought this for my new PC, and I was looknig in 3dmark03 and it said I was runnig at 1 GHZ, and the max clock speed was 2.4 GHZ. I checked at a different site and they said that 3dmark03 can get that info wrong and as long as it says 2 GHz in BIOS your ok. I thought well thats cool i geuss. I got a program that someone suggested here called EVEREST. It sid my clock speed was 1 GHZ, and my FSB was 200 (that is normal). My CPU multiplier was 5.0, so theoritcally my FSB would have to be set to 400 MHZ to get to 2 gigs right? I was just wondering if that would be safe to set it that much higher than default and if it is necessary?

 

[Shimmishim]

umm.. no it would not be the best idea...

your computer wouldn't boot up in the first place unless you got ram capable of running 400 HTT which i highly doubt... unless you are using a divider and on top of that you havea k8v which has no pci lock...

i'm guessing that cool n quiet is running and causing your chip to downclock to 1 ghz

try disabling it in the bios...

and use a program called cpu-z to check your clockspeed..

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cpu-z.com
">http://www.cpu-z.com
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[Nyati13]

This is the way Cool &amp; Quiet works. The reason that some benchmark programs show it at 1GHz, is that the program is sampling the CPU clock before it applies any work load to the CPU.
Cool &amp; Quiet will downclock (using the multiplier) your CPU to 1GHz when it isn't being worked hard to save on heat and electricity. As soon as you place a load on the CPU, it will automatically clock back to 2GHz. There is nothing that you need to do to make it run at full speed when it needs to.
You do not want to mess with the Internal Clock (some people call it the FSB or the HT clock or whatever, it is none of those, it is purely an Internal Clock Generator), it is supposed to stay at 200MHz, unless you are trying to overclock.

Jeremy

 

[B1adez]

Thanks guys, its all good now

 

[igblack]

it might say that because it is running at 1ghz. the athlon 64 have cool and quite in the processor and that will let it change its clock speed depending on the work load for an application so it will change to keep it cooler and run it quieter