Phenom Clock speed

Hi. I just purchased a phenom 9600 and was expecting to see 4*2.3Ghz cores, but instead both AMD Power Monitor and CPU-Z 1.42 report there being 4*1.15Ghz cores (5.8 multiplier) despite manually setting the multiplier to 11.5 Is this correct?

Thanks
Kingdavies

 

That is the processor slowing down to the minimum multiplier to conserve energy when not fully loaded. Run Orthos on it or some other application of similar intensity and you will see the clock speed go back up to 2.3GHz.

 

Isnt that what Cool'n'Quiet does, which I have disabled. Anyway ran Prime95 on all 4 cores and still only 1.15Ghz heres a screenshot:

 

Try forcing the multiplier to 11.5x in the BIOS and updating it with the latest BIOS too

 

Using the latest bios (1503) and set the multiplier to 11.5x, still no luck

 

Very strange. Our M2N32 works straight off.

 

i installed the bios there seems to be an big bug in it

look at what his HT link speed is running at (200 should be 1000)
drop back the bios to 1402 (that lacks phenom support) and i was able to set all 3 HT link options back up in the bios under chip set

with 1503 for some resone 2 HT link options go missing and sets them to HT 1x, 200 HT is correct that CPU-z is reporting as games will be going uber slow

(to go back on bios you must use an USB stick and the Bios EZ flash) dono if all 4 cores will work on the older bios

 

After further investigation it seems several people are suffering from the same problem:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...model=M2N32-SLI+Deluxe&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I wish I had gone with a Q6600 and bought a new motherboard, as this one turned out to be a pile of crap

 

Grab yourself a £60 MSI K9A2 CF! That'll work perfectly, plus you don't need SLI by the looks of your sig. Save yourself a ton of power use too.

 

asus looks like thay did an rush job this time the Bios brakes the settings in the bios as you can No longer set the HT speeds in Chipset

thay need to bring an update out to put the TLB fix in as this bios id asume does not have it

 

After re-flashing the bios and clearing it several times eventually got the multiplier working at 11.5X :S Still having problems with the HT stuck at 200

 

Hey, King, how did you fix your core multiplier? I have a 9500 and I'm stuck with a 5.5 multi.

Thanks.

 

King?

 

Nevermind, I fixed that multi error. It seems that enabling Cool and Quiet got everything working at its normal speed, rather then under-clocked.