Quote Originally Posted by LUCI5R View Post
Does anyone know why my Q9450 is running at 6.0 X 334 (2004MHz) with an Out-Of-Box BIOS on this board? I haven't touched the settings at all yet, waiting for the weekend to overclock. But CPU-Z & Everest are reporting that my CPU is running with 6x Multi @ 2004MHz. That's lower then it's stock rated Multi of 8. What gives?

I know it's easy to fix, but I thought CPU always ran at stock if you ran BIOS at stock.
Probably Speedstep. Does it jump upto x8 when under load?