CPU running at half speed
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I've just built a new PC that has an AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz processor. The BIOS sees this. But Windows 7 shows only 1.6GHz. I've fiddled with the BIOS as much as I can figure out. But to no avail. I've been to the AMD site to see if there is anthing that I can do to get it to work properly, again to no avail (maybe I missed something). Googling hasn't helped as I end up of gamer sites where nothing makes any sense whatsoever. The only thing in the system that is rated as 1.6GHz is the RAM, but the BIOS setting for it was set to 1066MHz. Also, RAM is pretty much always slower than the processor speed. I'm at a bit of a loss now as I can't figure out what is wrong. The most irritating things is that because of the slowed down processor the Windows Experience Index is calculated as 3.9 (the 4 year old PC it is replacing has a score of 4.2) The details: Motherboard: Gigabyte motherboard MA790XT-UD4P AMD AM3 790X ATX Processor: AMD CPU AM3 Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2GHz x4 Black Edition RAM: OCZ Memory 4GB (2x2048MB) Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz RAM Dual Channel CL 7-7-7-24XMP Profile 2: 1800MHz 9-9-9-31 Intel Black XTC Heatspreader
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I've just built a new PC that has an AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz processor. The BIOS sees this. But Windows 7 shows only 1.6GHz. I've fiddled with the BIOS as much as I can figure out. But to no avail. I've been to the AMD site to see if there is anthing that I can do to get it to work properly, again to no avail (maybe I missed something). Googling hasn't helped as I end up of gamer sites where nothing makes any sense whatsoever. The only thing in the system that is rated as 1.6GHz is the RAM, but the BIOS setting for it was set to 1066MHz. Also, RAM is pretty much always slower than the processor speed. I'm at a bit of a loss now as I can't figure out what is wrong. The most irritating things is that because of the slowed down processor the Windows Experience Index is calculated as 3.9 (the 4 year old PC it is replacing has a score of 4.2) The details: Motherboard: Gigabyte motherboard MA790XT-UD4P AMD AM3 790X ATX Processor: AMD CPU AM3 Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2GHz x4 Black Edition RAM: OCZ Memory 4GB (2x2048MB) Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz RAM Dual Channel CL 7-7-7-24XMP Profile 2: 1800MHz 9-9-9-31 Intel Black XTC Heatspreader
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Are you sure it's not a reporting error? You could try and run SiSoft Sandra, and see if your performance is as expected with your hardware.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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I've just built a new PC that has an AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz processor. The BIOS sees this. But Windows 7 shows only 1.6GHz. I've fiddled with the BIOS as much as I can figure out. But to no avail. I've been to the AMD site to see if there is anthing that I can do to get it to work properly, again to no avail (maybe I missed something). Googling hasn't helped as I end up of gamer sites where nothing makes any sense whatsoever. The only thing in the system that is rated as 1.6GHz is the RAM, but the BIOS setting for it was set to 1066MHz. Also, RAM is pretty much always slower than the processor speed. I'm at a bit of a loss now as I can't figure out what is wrong. The most irritating things is that because of the slowed down processor the Windows Experience Index is calculated as 3.9 (the 4 year old PC it is replacing has a score of 4.2) The details: Motherboard: Gigabyte motherboard MA790XT-UD4P AMD AM3 790X ATX Processor: AMD CPU AM3 Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2GHz x4 Black Edition RAM: OCZ Memory 4GB (2x2048MB) Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz RAM Dual Channel CL 7-7-7-24XMP Profile 2: 1800MHz 9-9-9-31 Intel Black XTC Heatspreader
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Are you sure it's not a reporting error? You could try and run SiSoft Sandra, and see if your performance is as expected with your hardware.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
It could be... I have thought about that possibility but the system does seem slightly sluggish and the benchmark tests that windows runs to determine the windows experience score return quite a low result. I'll look into the SiSoft Sandra thing when I get back home tonight.
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Is this happening at full load, or only at idle?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
dan neely wrote:
Is this happening at full load, or only at idle?
Good question. No idea. I used the AMD Cpu tool to report speed and it came back as Current: 1.6GHz, MaxSpeed: Unfused. No idea what "unfused" means.
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dan neely wrote:
Is this happening at full load, or only at idle?
Good question. No idea. I used the AMD Cpu tool to report speed and it came back as Current: 1.6GHz, MaxSpeed: Unfused. No idea what "unfused" means.
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Install prime95 and do a stress test. Then check your cpu speed. I suspect your CPU is fine. For power saving reasons any CPU from the last few years underclocks itself when idle.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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I've just built a new PC that has an AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz processor. The BIOS sees this. But Windows 7 shows only 1.6GHz. I've fiddled with the BIOS as much as I can figure out. But to no avail. I've been to the AMD site to see if there is anthing that I can do to get it to work properly, again to no avail (maybe I missed something). Googling hasn't helped as I end up of gamer sites where nothing makes any sense whatsoever. The only thing in the system that is rated as 1.6GHz is the RAM, but the BIOS setting for it was set to 1066MHz. Also, RAM is pretty much always slower than the processor speed. I'm at a bit of a loss now as I can't figure out what is wrong. The most irritating things is that because of the slowed down processor the Windows Experience Index is calculated as 3.9 (the 4 year old PC it is replacing has a score of 4.2) The details: Motherboard: Gigabyte motherboard MA790XT-UD4P AMD AM3 790X ATX Processor: AMD CPU AM3 Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2GHz x4 Black Edition RAM: OCZ Memory 4GB (2x2048MB) Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz RAM Dual Channel CL 7-7-7-24XMP Profile 2: 1800MHz 9-9-9-31 Intel Black XTC Heatspreader
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Check that the power scheme is Balanced or Max Perf. If it's Power Saver, the CPU will be underclocked. (I don't think this is the cause, actually, since the default should be Balanced and desktops don't get the tray icon that lets you change schemes, but it's all I can think of)
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Check that the power scheme is Balanced or Max Perf. If it's Power Saver, the CPU will be underclocked. (I don't think this is the cause, actually, since the default should be Balanced and desktops don't get the tray icon that lets you change schemes, but it's all I can think of)
Power Scheme was set to Balanced. I set it to Max yesterday but to no avail.
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I've just built a new PC that has an AMD Phenom II 955 3.2GHz processor. The BIOS sees this. But Windows 7 shows only 1.6GHz. I've fiddled with the BIOS as much as I can figure out. But to no avail. I've been to the AMD site to see if there is anthing that I can do to get it to work properly, again to no avail (maybe I missed something). Googling hasn't helped as I end up of gamer sites where nothing makes any sense whatsoever. The only thing in the system that is rated as 1.6GHz is the RAM, but the BIOS setting for it was set to 1066MHz. Also, RAM is pretty much always slower than the processor speed. I'm at a bit of a loss now as I can't figure out what is wrong. The most irritating things is that because of the slowed down processor the Windows Experience Index is calculated as 3.9 (the 4 year old PC it is replacing has a score of 4.2) The details: Motherboard: Gigabyte motherboard MA790XT-UD4P AMD AM3 790X ATX Processor: AMD CPU AM3 Phenom II X4 955 quad core 3.2GHz x4 Black Edition RAM: OCZ Memory 4GB (2x2048MB) Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz RAM Dual Channel CL 7-7-7-24XMP Profile 2: 1800MHz 9-9-9-31 Intel Black XTC Heatspreader
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I set the BIOS up manually, but using all the settings it had auto-detected. Windows and the AMD Processor utility now report the CPU speed as what I would expect. However, it did not alter my Windows Experience scores after I re-ran the test. And a processor stress test only ran about 10% faster than the previous run, despite the processor now running at twice the speed.
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I set the BIOS up manually, but using all the settings it had auto-detected. Windows and the AMD Processor utility now report the CPU speed as what I would expect. However, it did not alter my Windows Experience scores after I re-ran the test. And a processor stress test only ran about 10% faster than the previous run, despite the processor now running at twice the speed.
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Did you compare? You need ANY processor "grading" tool that can compare with online lists of similar computers. SiSoft Sandra just sprang to my mind, but PC-Mark or others might work just as well.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton