AMD Athlon 64x2 AM2 and WOW

[Harper]

Just build a new computer for my future brother inlaw. He's a WOW Addict. And he's just got an AMD Athlon64x2 3800, 1Gb Ram, GF7600GT 256Mb Vidio card, Windows Xp Pro

When I was installing WOW (using the 14 Day Trial Disk), there was an error message saying that my CPU is not fast enough. WTF? It's a AMD Athlon 64x2 3800 Dual Core Socket AM2.

Has any one else had this problem?
Is this going to cause a future problem?
(I do not want to get any abusive phone calls about a computer shitting itself in the middle of an MC run)

 

[HAVOC]

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about world of warcraft. Did the trail even install? If not, may-be another disk?

If it did install but, your just worried about the error message, "may-be wow just didn't recognize the new AM2 cpu?" IF it did install, i'm sure you've got nothing to worry about.

 

[Harper]

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about world of warcraft. Did the trail even install? If not, may-be another disk?

If it did install but, your just worried about the error message, "may-be wow just didn't recognize the new AM2 cpu?" IF it did install, i'm sure you've got nothing to worry about.

The trial did install completely. I did managed to get all the WOW Updates.

Now I did bring this up on the wow tech support forums.

Now I did have some one comment about :L-

(DatTH)
Some chips can fall to 800MHz or lower with Cool and Quiet enabled. You can ignore that error message and install or use the Athlon 64 x2 drivers from AMD's website to properly support C&C.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

Turn C&C off. Then try.

 

[Harper]

DUMB QUESTION TIME

Turn C&C off. Then try.

DUMB QUESTION.....
What's C&C?
And where do I turn it off?

 

[Lord AnthraX]

C&C is cool and quite.


It lowers the voltage of the cpu to 1.0 and below and brings its speed WAY down.


Can be disabled in the BIOS.

 

[Harper]

C&C is cool and quite

OIC.

That was a dumb question.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

OIC.

That was a dumb question.

 

[HAVOC]

OIC.

That was a dumb question.

That's not a dumb question...
And honestly... I should have thought of that because I had that issue with another game.

 

[Harper]

My future brother in law picked up is new PC. He's happy.

He's also given me what is left of his old rig. (AMD Athlon Xp 2800, Faulty Motherboard and FX5200 128)

I am going to see about trying to sneak the motherboard pass warranty.