Upgraded my AMD chip to FX-60

[MrTeeny]

Hey guys. I would appreciate some help with a recent CPU upgrade. I had an AMD 64 3700+ (San Diego) and upgraded to an AMD FX-60. Everything went fine as far as the installation, but now my system is slow as hell??? Is their something else I need to do (obviously).

When I booted my PC after the installation I noticed that it didn't seem any faster and in fact appeared slower. I ran PCMark05 and came up with a rather embarassing score of 2322. I was geeting around 4000 with my previos chip. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Duvie]

Make sure you get the AMD cpu driver from AMD...also make sure it is even recognizing your 2nd cpu....check in control panel > system > device manager as well as in task manager where you loo to see if you have 2 cpu graphs...


You have the latest bios for your motherboard that fully supports dual cores?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Follow these directions

 

[GeezerMan]

Originally posted by: MrTeeny
Hey guys. I would appreciate some help with a recent CPU upgrade. I had an AMD 64 3700+ (San Diego) and upgraded to an AMD FX-60. Everything went fine as far as the installation, but now my system is slow as hell??? Is their something else I need to do (obviously).

When I booted my PC after the installation I noticed that it didn't seem any faster and in fact appeared slower. I ran PCMark05 and came up with a rather embarassing score of 2322. I was geeting around 4000 with my previos chip. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

is that a CPU score of 2322? or the entire PCmark05 score?

 

[Furen]

I'd update the BIOS and resets its settings, the FX60 should be vastly superior to the 3700+ so I'd guess your motherboard is having some trouble recognizing an FX dual-core CPU. Have you checked CPU-z to see the reported clock speed? Hopefully it's not running at 1GHz.

 

[GeezerMan]

I'll run PCmark05 tomorrow myself on my Opteron 165 that's running at 2.6GHz. That should compare with a FX-60. Do most users turn everything off, like Norton, background apps, before running the benchmarks? I assume they do.

 

[amheck]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
Follow these directions

Stupid question...I'm sure I'm missing something. What's the difference between step #1 and #5 there?

 

[MrTeeny]

Thanks for all the replies. I thought (mistake on my part) that my mobo was dual core ready. I did a BIOS update and now everything is great.