heman90210 :
I was under the impression that if you have the CPU and an X79 chipset, you will be able to boost performance from 3.2 GHZ to 3.8 GHZ. Did I misunderstand. in additional, I just re read the motherboard manual. It didn't mention anything about changing turbo multipliers or main multiplier. I would like to know how to do that on my motherboard BIOS.
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I was going to buy the 750 Watt power supply but they had a sale on the 1000 Watt selling for the same price as the 750 Watt. It was a no brainier
What it's talking about is the Turbo Boost feature, like I explained above (and it's not exclusive to just that CPU OR the X79 chipset. ALL i5's and i7's have that feature and so do all of their respective chipsets (like Z68 and Z77). It doesn't do any "magical" overclocking or anything and it has limits and caveats. Turbo Boost will allow the CPU to go faster than its stock speed depending on the situation and how many cores are in use (also like I explained above). Nothing like
real overclocking, just an extra "boost" of speed when
it decides that you need it. That's why it's nice to be able to OC manually because that's not at all what Turbo does.
The Turbo multipliers are accessed by going into the "Advanced" part of the BIOS and going to "Ai Tweaker". From there, you need to set "OC Tuner" to "Manual".
When you do that, you'll have an option available to be able to change the Turbo multipliers. It's called "Turbo Ratio" in the BIOS. You can choose to do it by all cores (all cores are the same), or by "per core" (every core can be different). You can use either one, but for a
true OC, you'll want all of the cores to have the same Turbo frequency. That also effectively disables Turbo's
true function, since it all the cores will "Turbo up" to the same speed, regardless of load or cores in use.
Also, the main multiplier is located under "CPU Performance Settings", also in the Ai Tuner section of the BIOS. When you click on "CPU Performance Settings" you'll have an option called "CPU Ratio" that you will be able to change as well. Changing that will be OC'ing with the "main" multiplier.