Fx8150 problem

[mikey243]

Hi im not sure whats wrong here got a crosshair formula v and the new fx cpu.
first i had to borrow an athlon x2 245 2.9ghz just to get it to boot so i could update the bios. It overclocked it to 3.6ghz. Put in the new cpu everything was 250fps solid cod 4. Now its 3.6ghz but when i check frequencies it said 1.5ghz and gos between 170 and 250fps. Its been 10years since i had a pc i have no idea.

 

[jennidc]

Its "cool n quiet" power management on the processor - it clocks higher when you need it and lower when not to save juice -its a good feature and working this way by design.

If its causing you problems you can disable it (and turbo mode) in the BIOS

 

[Gashman]

would leave Cool and Quiet on personally, hasn't caused my any stability issues or anything whilst increasing frequency, running 4GHZ at the moment with C&Q still enabled, cores drop down to about 1.2GHZ when idling and spin upto speed under load. seems to work much better than it has in the past for me, had a number of AMD processors and they've never been so quick to go from a low power mode to full power, temperatures also go right down with C&Q on as well.