AMD phenom II 945 defaultly underclocked.

[didier11]

I recently finished my first build and was expecting good things from my system:
AMD Phenom II x4 945
Gigabyte Ga-MA790XT-UD4P
G. Skill 4 GB ddr3 1333
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 superclocked edition
Maxtor 6l300S0 300gb 1.5gb/s HD
Corsair CMPSU 850tx power supply
Vista Home Premium 64bit

The cpu core clock is currently at 801 MHz and the multiplier is 4x..... this seems extremely low, what can i do to solve this issue? (i ran AMD overdrive and the performance settings were set at default and these are the numbers im getting)
link to my AMD overdrive utility window

 

[masteryoda34]

You probably have Cool n Quiet enabled in the BIOS.

 

[imported_SLIM]

What he said, but don't disable it. Just run prime95 or something cpu intensive while you are looking at clockspeeds to make sure it responds appropriately.

 

[taltamir]

what they said... the reason for that is that if you run the processor X at the exact same voltage, if you lower the multiplier (and thus mhz) it will consume less electricity.

 

[didier11]

my cool n quiet is disabled, i ran prime95 and my clock speeds stayed the same
screen image running prime 95/task manager/cpu-z/amd overdrive utility

 

[richierich1212]

Which BIOS version are you running?

 

[SlowSpyder]

Is the multiplier set to 4x in the bios? If so, set it to Auto or 15x to get your proper speed.

 

[Soccerman06]

Please dont have multiple threads on the same topic:

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