What its doing is throttling down. When your PC isnt using many resources, it throttles down to save power blah blah. There is just a setting in BIOS u need to disable. Disabe C1E and EIST in your BIOS. When I overclock (E8400@ 3.6ghz) I just diable ALL CPU features. Good luck!
THus the first one you open will have the slowest speed the second one will have the second highest speed and the last one is probably reading the cpu's native speed.
That's the VID when the chip multi is 6x with speedstep.
When I had my quad I made the same mistake and started freaking out with joy, til the cpu saw load and the VID went up to 1.275 lol. Still clocked like a champ though, 4.05ghz benchable and 3.86ghz stable.
There's no way it wasn't...my friend did it and he's done a lot of computers, I watched him. The sink was touching the processor, with a paper thin layer of paste, screwed down tightly. Unless there's a secret way to mount it, I'd say it was mounted correctly. But idk.