How does intel's turbo boost technology work?

alannm37

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Yes, it will automatically boost by itself when you are playing or doing something that is CPU intensive, it detects that you will need more CPU power and it will go to it's turbo clock speed. That's all there really is to it. Hope I helped :)

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Is it automatically installed or do I need to do it manually?

 


Automatic make sure your chipset drivers are installed though
 

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The chipset drivers are installed.

But when I run a stress test as an example,

The Frequency of the CPU never goes higher than 3696.97 Mhz.
 
the way turbo works is that it will give you a boost of speed if temps and power targets allow. you'll see a bigger boost if 1 or 2 cores are being used and less if more are used. it won't go higher than 3.7 on 4 cores, 3.8 on 3 and 3.9 on 2 or less. i might be slightly off on those numbers but i'm pretty sure those are the steps. some motherboards have an option in the bios which will basically overclock to the max turbo frequency regardless of how many cores are used.
 

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I am using a stress test that comes along with Evga OC scanner X.

And I am using a NH-D14 CPU cooler.