Should I turn Enhanced Speed Step technology on or off in the BIOS.

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Should I turn Enhanced Speed Step technology on or off in the BIOS. This is a old Dell E510. I was just wondering if it would make it faster or slower. I do not care about power consumption as this is a desktop. I just want to know which option is slower or faster (on or off).

Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz with HT.
 
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The whole point is
as long as the Speedstep is working correctly
then DONT turn it off
it doesnt cause any performance loss
and will save on your electric bill plus
make the world a Greener place :)
Speedstep was used with PIII and Pentium M
then with the Pentium 4 it wasnt used until the Pentium 6xx,8xx and 9xx
Now if that is a Pentium 4 3.0 HT Northwood then it would NOT have
speedstep
If it is a Prescott then YES it would
looking at the Dell E510 specs
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim5150/en/sm/specs1.htm#wp1052310
the E510 used Pentium 4 5xxx and 6xxx so it is a good possiblity that it does use
Speedstep

I thought it was the Pentium 4 3.0 HT Northwood so that is why
I said that :)

BTW sidenote-read article about SandyBridge and did you know
they used quite a few features from the Pentium 4 in the SB design?
The SB uses uOP cache which is a mod of the trace cache in Pent4
 

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All right. Dell had the factory default on off. I turned it on now. Everything seems to be running the same. Thank you for the tips everyone.
 
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