I don't see SpeedStep in the BIOS, but the Mobile Pentium 4 that I have is recognized properly in the BIOS. I doubt that is true, considering that the fastest mobile Northwood HT (SL77R) is rated with an ICC max of 67.4 A. The 2nd fastest desktop Northwood HT (SL6WE/SL6WG/SL792) is also rated with …

Ah, yes. I almost forgot about the thermal paste. I believe that I have applied Gelid GC Extreme on the CPU, but I don't have much of a clue if it is considered good.

Thanks for the quick reply, but I am unfortunately unable to do that. It's due to this oddball machine that doesn't have support for SpeedStep, since it utilizes the 865PE chipset. I don't think the 865PE and its BIOS even supports SpeedStep, but it does accept a Mobile Pentium 4. It runs it at the …

Should I do that? I own a Toshiba Satellite P25 that originally came with a 3.0C, but I stupidly swapped it for a 3.4C, and now it's just overheating on every single CPU-intensive application. My Satellite P25 does not have a lot of thermal headroom either, because it throttles immediately after it …