Phenom II 965 3.4Ghz Reporting as 2.8??

bakes0310 · 6 Oct 2010 at 13:12

Just started overclocking and before i started i noticed on amd overdrive tool its reporting at 2.8?? Weird i thought so i checked on dxdiag and it says 2.8 on there aswell?

Bleek · 6 Oct 2010 at 15:48

Old bios issue?

welshdragon · 6 Oct 2010 at 15:54

Make sure you update your bios?

HeX · 6 Oct 2010 at 15:54

Multi set incorrectly?

Duke · 6 Oct 2010 at 16:37

Do these clock down when idle like Speedstep does with the Intel chips?

geoirv23 · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:18

Duke said:
Do these clock down when idle like Speedstep does with the Intel chips?

Yep, cool n quiet.

Big.Wayne · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:50

Hey bakes0310

bakes0310 said:
Just started overclocking and before i started i noticed on amd overdrive tool its reporting at 2.8?? Weird i thought so i checked on dxdiag and it says 2.8 on there aswell?

Maybe some glitch with AMD overDrive?

Go into BIOS and manually set [x17] multi to see if that works?

Big.Wayne · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:50

Duke said:
Do these clock down when idle like Speedstep does with the Intel chips?

geoirv23 said:
Yep, cool n quiet.

That's a [x4] multi I think? . . . so C&Q = 800MHz

kedge · 6 Oct 2010 at 18:46

geoirv23 said:
Yep, cool n quiet.

Only if you install the cool n quiet software and drivers and enable acpi 2 support in the bios.

Goku · 6 Oct 2010 at 20:48

I had that on my 955 BE until I ran some CPU intensive software, try PRIME95 or even better folding@home. If you install CPUID you'll see it report the CPU speed and then when you run CPU s/w it should jump up to whatever you've clocked it to. BTW you should be able to clock that to 4Ghz easily providing you have good cooling. Mines running at that with no probs.

Big.Wayne · 6 Oct 2010 at 21:29

kedge said:
Only if you install the cool n quiet software and drivers and enable acpi 2 support in the bios.

If talking about Windows XP then your correct . . . but I think Windows 7 and maybe Vista have all the C&Q built in so that would make your statement incorrect!

Duke · 6 Oct 2010 at 21:29

Big.Wayne said:
If talking about Windows XP then your correct . . . but I think Windows 7 and maybe Vista have all the C&Q built in so that would make your statement incorrect!

Was going to say, that is a lot of hassle otherwise and most people wouldn't know to install it.

Orcvader · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:36

My 965 has a low x4 state, then x11, then x17.
So really, on stock you should get 800mhz, 2.2ghz and 3.4ghz
Try CPU-Z, run Prime95 and see what speeds you get there.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

EDIT: Just noticed you have the same motherboard as me. What BIOS version does it have? If I remember correctly, if you have the C3 revision of the 965, you need at least BIOS version 1003 for it to run properly.

bakes0310 · 7 Oct 2010 at 12:57

No problem now as its now overclocked to 3.5

geoirv23 · 7 Oct 2010 at 13:13

Did you find out what the issue was?

bakes0310 · 7 Oct 2010 at 13:22

geoirv23 said:
Did you find out what the issue was?

Not really all i checked all the cores and they were all reading 2.8, so i went into the bios and got all cores running at 3.5. Everything seems fine i ran 3dmark vantage and its fine with a better score. Now im trying out prime95 how long should i leave it running im thinking 8hrs.

Duke · 7 Oct 2010 at 13:48

Did you put the latest BIOS on? Sounds like that would fix it (and could fix/improve other things too).

bodybag · 7 Oct 2010 at 20:33

My Asus board done this. I just reset the cmos and hey presto it reported the correct speed.

PapaLazaru · 7 Oct 2010 at 20:59

bakes0310 said:
No problem now as its now overclocked to 3.5

Ramp it up to 4Ghz.

thingemajib · 7 Oct 2010 at 21:45

never had overdrive report the wrong frequency, but the latest version gives me problems with multiplier overclocking (ie, it wont let me at all.) googling around this seems to be quite a rare issue though, and i can still change it in the bios or use the previous version of overdrive.