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Originally Posted by jsc1973 
You're overloading the VRM's on the motherboard and it's throttling back to keep from blowing them up. The M5A78M-LE is a four-phase (3+1) VRM motherboard that lacks cooling on the MOSFET's and is known to have problems with CPU's rated at even 125W TDP. See here: http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboard-vrm-information-list/0_100
That CPU is rated for 125W at stock; if you're overclocking at all, you're going way above even what ASUS says is OK for your board.

You're overloading the VRM's on the motherboard and it's throttling back to keep from blowing them up. The M5A78M-LE is a four-phase (3+1) VRM motherboard that lacks cooling on the MOSFET's and is known to have problems with CPU's rated at even 125W TDP. See here: http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboard-vrm-information-list/0_100
That CPU is rated for 125W at stock; if you're overclocking at all, you're going way above even what ASUS says is OK for your board.
^This is what's happening







