Hi,

As some of you know, I'm having a hard time with my formatting. :P

I have this processor and I clearly remember that two days ago it was 2.4GHz. Now after a complet format, it went from 2.4 to 1.8GHz! So how can I possible get it back to 2.4 or higher? I possibly will have to overclock, but I never did so. Help anyone? :s

Are absolutely positive that 2.4 was the actual clock, not just the irrelevant and stupid postfix AMD put on their "Intel-bash0rz" CPUs?
1.8 sounds about right for an Athlon 2.4.

Set the correct multipliers in the BIOS?

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Set the correct multipliers in the BIOS?

Care to be a little more precise? I'm not all of a computer pro.

And I'm absolutely sure it was 2.4GHz. An evident proof of the underclock is that I used to play LFS @ 90fps and now I barely get 40 FPS at the top and the computer is slower than before the formating.

Your CPU's clock depends on its multiplier and the front side bus clock.
I reckon your FSB is 200 so your multiplier should be 12 but is set to 9 now.

Enter the BIOS with whatever key it tells you in the boot sequence, it's usually delete or one of the function keys (F1 or F2). Just look though since you obviously don't have a clue about it. See if you can find anything that looks like it's related to the CPU and report your findings

What CPU do you have?

Does it return to 2.4 GHz under load? (most modern CPU's underclock at idle to run cooler and use less power).

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What CPU do you have?

Does it return to 2.4 GHz under load? (most modern CPU's underclock at idle to run cooler and use less power).

I got an AMD Athlon64 3800+ and it doesn't seems to return to 2.4 GHz under load. From what I read my processor is superlocked and I can't really have an access to the 'overclockable stuff' which means I'm not able to do what morpha said. In the bios it says I got 2400 MHz but in my material it says I got 1800 MHz.

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Be sure that "cool and quiet" is disabled. You can do that in the BIOS or setting Windows to anything different than "minimum system energy" by pressing right click on desktop, properties, screen protector and then energy (maybe those names are a bit different, I made my own translation from Spanish).

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Be sure that "cool and quiet" is disabled. You can do that in the BIOS or setting Windows to anything different than "minimum system energy" by pressing right click on desktop, properties, screen protector and then energy (maybe those names are a bit different, I made my own translation from Spanish).

Is that what you are talking about? What does it has to do with my processor though?

Yep, exactly. Cool and quiet is what Jakg said

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...(most modern CPU's underclock at idle to run cooler and use less power)...

If you want to activate it, you have to set it to "enable" in the BIOS and then in Windows "minimum energy". If you set in Windows to any other configuration, cool and quiet doesn´t work anymore, and that´s what you want (supposing that cool and quiet is your problem, I can´t tell you for sure.).

Wow NitroNitrous you were right! Thanks a bucnh mate, that was a piece of cake after all. LFS running back at 90 fps

I´m glad of hearing that man
Supposedly Cool and quiet doesn´t reduce performance, but unfortunately it´s not perfect and yeah, it does

Oh well nvm I'm still at 42 fps and I dont know why. But now it's a solid 42 FPS so now it's possibly because of the drivers or something cause the processor is 100% there @ 2.41 GHz.