My FSB is far below the recommended speed!! Please help!

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#1 Mormon_Gamer
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I've got an ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus AM2+ motherboard and a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz processor.

After doing a little research and finding that my FSB speed should be at least 1000MHz and then realizing that it's at 200MHz (that's right... 200) I figured out what my problem was from my last post.

So, that being the case... I have NO idea how to increase the speed of my FSB. I've used google and I've also looked through the BIOS manually. Found absolutely nothing whatsoever that could help.

Can any of you help me?

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#2 RayvinAzn
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AMD doesn't use an FSB by proper definition, it's called Hypertransport (reason being it only interfaces with graphics cards and peripherals as opposed to RAM). That being said, yes, the normal speed for your processor is 1000MHz - a speed determined by taking the reference clock of your chip and multiplying it by a number (usually five, sometimes lower when overclocked). So your reference clock of 200MHz is perfectly normal - when using your multiplier of 5, it gives you the effective HT speed of 1000MHz.
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I still have a problem though... it's as if there's a buffer and that buffer is being exhausted when I do something that takes up about 10% or more processing speed. I can't watch Youtube videos, can't play video games, and I can't record music (which is the main reason I have this computer).

The question still remains... what's wrong with my computer?

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#4 RayvinAzn
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I still have a problem though... it's as if there's a buffer and that buffer is being exhausted when I do something that takes up about 10% or more processing speed. I can't watch Youtube videos, can't play video games, and I can't record music (which is the main reason I have this computer).

The question still remains... what's wrong with my computer?

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Sounds like a driver/codec issue. Are your graphics drivers properly installed?