Okay, so, with some suggestion from a friend, and for my experience with AMD, i built a computer in the past month, using a DFI Lanparty 790FX-M2RS motherboard, and an AMD Phenom X4 9850BE. Shortly after, i decided to get a new CPU cooler for it. I was using my computer for a few hours before my new cooler arrived, so i thought i'd have no problem with taking the old one out and replacing it and the old thermal paste with AS5. When i went to take out the stock heatsink, the whole thing, processor and all, came out. The processor was stuck to the bottom of the heatsink via the thermal paste. With some careful pulling, i managed to get the processor off, and saw that there were some bent pins. I bent them back, put some AS5 on it, and then installed the new heatsink and started it up, hoping it would work (as it came out of the socket without the securing lever being released). It started, but when i ran CPU-Z, my FSB read 169.5 instead of 200, whereas the BIOS still said 200. now, the FSB in CPU-Z is consistent with the BIOS, but the multiplier is at 6.25, and if i change it, it still goes back to 6.25. It flucuates now and them, with some of the cores going back up to 12.5 multi, but quickly back down to 6.25. Now, i have posted all this on the AMD support forum, and have been told that it was possibly related to the BIOS/Motherboard, but haven't really been told anything other than that.
So, to sum most of that up, my phenom is running at half of what it should and i have no idea if it's the processor or board and i needs help (which, unfortunately, is all i seem to do on forums like these...
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So, to sum most of that up, my phenom is running at half of what it should and i have no idea if it's the processor or board and i needs help (which, unfortunately, is all i seem to do on forums like these...