My xw9400 (bought from a re-seller) seems to be running at an awful low clock rate

paulreilly

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I've got a HPxw9400, Quadcore, running Windows7. I bought it from a reselller thinking a quad machine would be keep me going for years. But the performance is terrible, and I think the CPU clock rate is wrong. I benchmarked it on Passmark and it's practically the worse machine in the table. All 4 cores are enabled (I get 4 graphs on Task Manager) and its got 8G RAM. CPU-Z reports the Core Speed is 1149MHz (5.75x200). This MUST be wrong eh? I have NO IDEA at all how to change this. BIOS is 4.03. Can anyone give this newbie some gentle help?