MS-6590 KT4A Ultra: FSB 333 with DDR400?

Recently purchased an MS-6590. I put in a Athlon XP 3000+ (the FSB 333 version, not the FSB 400 version) and a 1GB Corsair DDR400 stick. How do I get full performance out of this system? It keeps recogniozing the CPU as an XP 2800, not the 3000, and is running at 2088 MHz. I cannot get the multiplier to go to 13. I set the multiplier to "12.5-13". This BIOS doesn't have a "13" setting, only this weird "12.5-13" option. CPU-Z says the multiplier is 12.5. Like I said, I cannot force the "13".
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Michael

Try DaveR's suggestion first, it is good advice. 
At best, the following is bad advice......
When setting multiplier, keep pressing pagedown passed auto, you get 14 and 15.  I think 12.5/13.0 is the right setting or leave it on auto.  I did read "somewhere" that by going to the very lowest multiplier would recognise as the higher multipliers.  e.g if you set multiplier to 6.0 would recognise as 13.0 (6.5=14, 7.0=15, 7.5=16).   I don't have that processor so I've never needed to do this... but surely it can't hurt to try.  If it doesn't work, reset CMOS and try again.

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