AMD Athlon 3200+ - 800Mhz?!

[Rossell]

Maniac618 might wanna listen in on this one.

I have an Athlon 64 3200+, Radeon 9800 Pro, 220Gb HDD, 1Gb Crucial Ballistix RAM, and Soundblaster Live 5.1.

Now, I can only run at Medium settings across the board. The software itself is XP SP2 with Radeon 4.12s.

When I go into the console it recognises my CPU as AMD 800Mhz? Could this be the problem?

Thoughts?

 

[^Ben]

Probably.

Your system might be overheating and the AMD processor will try to throttle the speed to stop it overheating.

I can't remember how to set it back again.

Whats your motherboard?

 

[Miker75]

There's also Cool N Quiet from AMD..that could be whats causing the CPU to be listed as 800Mhz. (although it should ramp up to it's normal speed while in the game).

Try going into your BIOS and checking for the cool n quiet setting and try turning it off if it's on.