Intel P4 Issue

[nankura]

Hey all.

 

Ok recently i purchased a Prescott Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Hyperthreading processor. ive read up alot of review's it seem's hyperthreading on actually reduces fps in games heavily in some points.

 

i have hyperthreading enabled ofcourse. it defaulted it when i put in the processor, ive also flashed the bios to the latest version

 

My issue is, i can turn off hyperthreading, but i cant modify the clock speed of the processor. with hyperthreading off it wont go up to 3.0Ghz the clock speed stay's at 1504.25Mhz, which is what it is with hyperthreading enabled on both "processors"

 

im curious how i can safely turn off hyperthreading and up the clock speed to the right speed

 

My crappy rig:

Asustek P4VP-MX Motherboard rev 1.xx

2GB DDR PC3200 400Mhz ram

ATi X1650 512MB DDR2 GFX Card AGP

80GB HDD

P4 HT 3.0Ghz Processor

 

here's a screenshot of the processor property's with CPU-Z

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1228/processorview.jpg

[Dalo Harkin]

Its fine - the clock speed will still be 3.0Ghz its just that they have built in abilities that reduce the clock speed when the pc isnt doing much - leave the CPU Z window open so you can see it and launch WMP or something and you will see it go up.:)

 

personally for an extra 1-3 FPS I would leave the hyperthreading alone