Turbo Boost

Jerk · Jerk #1 (**permalink**)

02-11-2011, 04:44 PM

So I just bought a 17-inch Macbook Pro i5 2.53GHz. The guy told me if I enable turbo boost it can go up to 3.06GHz.

Question? How can I enable turbo boost?

Buzzard2010 · Buzzard2010 #2 (**permalink**)

02-11-2011, 05:06 PM

Turbo Boost is a feature of Intel iX CPUs that dynamically increases the clock speed in response to load. TurboBoost only activates when the power use, number of cores in use, and core temperature is low enough. It is designed to provide a boost to single threaded applications running on multicore CPUs. If you have a fully multithreaded video render running, Turboboost likely won't be able to activate since both cores will be in use, the temperature will be high, and the power use will be high.

i.e it enables automatically!

- Simon

Buzzard2010 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 22, 2010 Location: Bretforton, Worcestershire Posts: 2,571 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 15" 2014, 2.2GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD, OSX 10.9.5 - iPhone 5s 16gb	02-11-2011, 05:06 PM Turbo Boost is a feature of Intel iX CPUs that dynamically increases the clock speed in response to load. TurboBoost only activates when the power use, number of cores in use, and core temperature is low enough. It is designed to provide a boost to single threaded applications running on multicore CPUs. If you have a fully multithreaded video render running, Turboboost likely won't be able to activate since both cores will be in use, the temperature will be high, and the power use will be high. i.e it enables automatically! - Simon If you have been helped, don't forget to use the Reputation system at the top right of their post. May 2011 Nominated: March 2011 & April 2011
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Member Since: Feb 02, 2011 Posts: 7	02-11-2011, 04:44 PM So I just bought a 17-inch Macbook Pro i5 2.53GHz. The guy told me if I enable turbo boost it can go up to 3.06GHz. Question? How can I enable turbo boost?
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