can I OC the turbo boost frequency

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vixl2ds

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everyone is talking about OC that and OC this... But can I actualy leave the base clock the same and make the CPU turbo boost to the max (in other words to OC the boost frequency)...

OC is good and all, but running extra voltage and running a cpu beyond 4.0ghz eats a lot of power (especialy if I only sit in a browser half the time, theres no justification for this frequency to be turned on all the time)...

so can it be done for both amd and intel?
 
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okay.. let me get this right: you want to leave the core voltage and bclk at stock and only raise the turbo clockrates, yes? if so, then it is sitll a form of overclocking since you're raising the clockrate after all. it is doable but the o.c. limit will depend on your silicon, as usual. since every cpu overclocks differently, the maximum o.c. you'll get with your fx8350 will be specific to your sample. it is also possible to do with same thing with intel's overclockable cpus.
but keep in mind that applications stress the cpu in varying degrees. one app can cause the turbo to the max while other may not. usually, the cpus are configured to maintain turbo...
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I am not 100% positive about that but I believe you can't , the basic idea behind turbo boost is that it doesn't consume much power or doesn't output heat as it takes the unneeded power from the unused cores and pump it into one core for it to turbo boost so that what makes me believe you can't OC the turbo boost.

Overclocking makes the whole thing more powerful not just the boost which is the power collected from unused cores and pumped into the active ones.
 
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what are your pc specifications?
turbo boosting varies from cpu to cpu. amd's turbo tech is different from intel's even though both address the same issue. you can set turbo clockrate, duration of o.c., power limit etc in modern motherboard bios. customizability depends on motherboard model, chipsets etc.
you can also set bios profiles and power profiles in windows' power options.
 
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okay.. let me get this right: you want to leave the core voltage and bclk at stock and only raise the turbo clockrates, yes? if so, then it is sitll a form of overclocking since you're raising the clockrate after all. it is doable but the o.c. limit will depend on your silicon, as usual. since every cpu overclocks differently, the maximum o.c. you'll get with your fx8350 will be specific to your sample. it is also possible to do with same thing with intel's overclockable cpus.
but keep in mind that applications stress the cpu in varying degrees. one app can cause the turbo to the max while other may not. usually, the cpus are configured to maintain turbo clockrates on the condition that the cpu doesn't get too hot, i.e. the cpu may be rated to run at 4.0 GHz but with an app like 7zip benchmark/archiving it may run at 4.2-4.3 GHz as long as the workload is running, then downclock itself back to 1.2 GHz at idle.
in your cpu's case, the goal would be to maintain a large thermal margin. check damric's amd temp. guide for details.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html
 
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