Hi all. I've a retro pc used for Windows xp gaming and it originally came with a Celeron D. I applied a few upgrades including a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz. All fine. I then obtained a Pentium 3.0Ghz thinking the included hyperthreading would be a decent bump in performance. I ran a couple of benchmarks and noticed the score was down by a fair amount. Looking in the bios and cpu-z it states that the Pentium is indeed 3.0ghz but it's running at only half that speed. Speed does not increase when benchmarking. No options in bios report that this can be changed and HT is activated so it must be supported unless I am missing something. Doing a search does not find a later bios. PC is HP Pavilion A1009.uk.
Two screenies attached showing cpu and motherboard spec...tia.
Two screenies attached showing cpu and motherboard spec...tia.