Hi This is a known issue, yes ? FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 4 15:25:29 PHT 2013 root at turk.XXX.XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TURK amd64 gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] CPU: AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor (4018.41-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x600f20 Family = 0x15 Model = 0x2 Stepping = 0 Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> Features2=0x3e98320b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,FMA,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C> AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1ebbfff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,<b17>,NodeId,TBM,Topology,<b23>,<b24>> Standard Extended Features=0x8 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics The CPU is set to 4.7GHz in the BIOS but it only shows up as above. Haven't tried FreeBSD 10 tho, will do that soon! Thanks! -- Don't sweat it -- it's only ones and zeros. -- P. Skelly