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New to the forum and I could really use some help concerning the BIOS for the GA-MA790FX-DQ6 and my new Phenom II 965 AMD cpu
For some reason, even though the CPU is listed as supported for this mobo, and I've updated to the latest BIOS (F7d) My cpu shows as 3.4 in the BIOS. Once I boot, windows also states that it is 3.4g under Control Panel>System (I'm running xp 64)
The problems start here...
I load up AMD Overdrive as well as CPU-Z and they both state that each core on my cpu is only running at 800mhz. I thought maybe Cool n Quiet was the culprit, but even when I disabled it, each core still would only clock at 800mhz. Not to mention, I was monitoring the cpu while running Prime95 Stress test, and all four cores ran at 100% load, with a clock speed of 800mhz. Last I checked, CnQ doesn't cap you like this upon load.
I went into my BIOS and changed the multiplier to x16 and saved/exit.
AMD Overdrive then stated that indeed my target speed is set at the listed 3400mhz. yet my current speeds remain and never go over 803mhz on each core, despite these settings.
The motherboard is little over 2 years old. Is it possible that even though it was advertised to run future AM3 socket cpu's, that this just isn't likely? I was told it's possible the cpu is running under a safe-mode, in order for it to allow the system to boot. Perhaps also something to do with the C3 stepping. I was told my tech support that I would have to wait for future updates in order to solve this concerning C3. AMD states that Gigabyte boards of this nature had similar problems, yet they were most often solved with a BIOS update so they don't know whats going on either.
Also another thing peculiar to note, is when I updated with F6 BIOS update instead, my first core (Core 0) ran at 1600mhz, and Cores 1-3 ran at 800mhz. Not sure if that helps, but I did notice a drastic difference in performance when this occured. fps in 3dmark effectively doubled or at the least experienced a 50% increase in performance. But it was still relatively low.
Atm I'm waiting for a new board to get in that is for am3 sockets only, will test the cpu then, but nonetheless I'd like to know if this is able to be solved. I adjusted Power setting in Control panel, nothing it seem I do makes a difference really. Any tips?
Hey Hey!! :)
New to the forum and I could really use some help concerning the BIOS for the GA-MA790FX-DQ6 and my new Phenom II 965 AMD cpu
For some reason, even though the CPU is listed as supported for this mobo, and I've updated to the latest BIOS (F7d) My cpu shows as 3.4 in the BIOS. Once I boot, windows also states that it is 3.4g under Control Panel>System (I'm running xp 64)
The problems start here...
I load up AMD Overdrive as well as CPU-Z and they both state that each core on my cpu is only running at 800mhz. I thought maybe Cool n Quiet was the culprit, but even when I disabled it, each core still would only clock at 800mhz. Not to mention, I was monitoring the cpu while running Prime95 Stress test, and all four cores ran at 100% load, with a clock speed of 800mhz. Last I checked, CnQ doesn't cap you like this upon load.
I went into my BIOS and changed the multiplier to x16 and saved/exit.
AMD Overdrive then stated that indeed my target speed is set at the listed 3400mhz. yet my current speeds remain and never go over 803mhz on each core, despite these settings.
The motherboard is little over 2 years old. Is it possible that even though it was advertised to run future AM3 socket cpu's, that this just isn't likely? I was told it's possible the cpu is running under a safe-mode, in order for it to allow the system to boot. Perhaps also something to do with the C3 stepping. I was told my tech support that I would have to wait for future updates in order to solve this concerning C3. AMD states that Gigabyte boards of this nature had similar problems, yet they were most often solved with a BIOS update so they don't know whats going on either.
Also another thing peculiar to note, is when I updated with F6 BIOS update instead, my first core (Core 0) ran at 1600mhz, and Cores 1-3 ran at 800mhz. Not sure if that helps, but I did notice a drastic difference in performance when this occured. fps in 3dmark effectively doubled or at the least experienced a 50% increase in performance. But it was still relatively low.
Atm I'm waiting for a new board to get in that is for am3 sockets only, will test the cpu then, but nonetheless I'd like to know if this is able to be solved. I adjusted Power setting in Control panel, nothing it seem I do makes a difference really. Any tips?
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