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G41C-GS with Core 2 Quad Q9650 runs @ 2GHz?

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Topic: G41C-GS with Core 2 Quad Q9650 runs @ 2GHz?

Posted By: GBlake
Subject: G41C-GS with Core 2 Quad Q9650 runs @ 2GHz?
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 11:51am

First post on here so don't beat me too bad.
Anyway I have the G41C-GS with a Q9650 that should run at 3GHz. CPU-Z on finds 1997.17 MHz and the BIOS only shows 2000MHz. I have the FSB1 jumper set for 1333 CPU and DDR3 1333 memory (pin 2 and 3 jumped). I'm running Win10 at 64 bit with 8GB DDR3 ram. Windows Detects all four cores at 3.0 GHz in the device manager.

Where should I start to get this working?

Thank you all!

G

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Posted By: GBlake
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 12:22pm

OK. I found it. Intel SpeedStep was enabled. I disabled it.
The ratio CMOS setting was at 6 for some reason. I upped the multiplier to 9 and now it operates at 3GHz. Ugh.
If anyone has this issue I hope my struggle helped.