Enable the turbo on a i7 2600 forever?

joytech22

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Hi.

I read a few articles of people overclocking non-K CPU's by enabling the turbo and leaving it on somehow in the EFI BIOS.
Can somebody tell me how I would go about doing that? It seems whenever somebody figures out how to do it they never post how the hell they did it.


What I want to do:

Enable the turbo on my i7 2600 (not k) to forever remain at 3.8GHz on ALL cores.

Thanks in advance.
 
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As long as you have a P67 board, you can overclock the Turbo speeds by +400MHz on a non-K CPU.

Stock:
1 core: 3.8GHz
2 core: 3.7GHz
3 core: 3.6GHz
4 core: 3.5GHz

Overclocked:
1 core: 4.2GHz
2 core: 4.1GHz
3 core: 4.0GHz
4 core: 3.9GHz

You do it by changing the Turbo multipliers in the UEFI/BIOS. I'm sure somebody with an ASUS board could walk you through it.
As long as you have a P67 board, you can overclock the Turbo speeds by +400MHz on a non-K CPU.

Stock:
1 core: 3.8GHz
2 core: 3.7GHz
3 core: 3.6GHz
4 core: 3.5GHz

Overclocked:
1 core: 4.2GHz
2 core: 4.1GHz
3 core: 4.0GHz
4 core: 3.9GHz

You do it by changing the Turbo multipliers in the UEFI/BIOS. I'm sure somebody with an ASUS board could walk you through it.
 
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Thanks, but I read there was a way to keep the turbo at 3.8GHz at all times, even with no load.

I'll try to apply the overclocked multiplier right now.
Edit: I changed the multi's on it with no problems, now I just need to find out how to keep the CPU at turbo speeds for the rest of it's life.
 

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Thanks, I just did but the CPU doesn't remain at turbo speeds?

It's still at 3.5GHz instead of 3.9GHz.


Edit: I also read on more about this and it mentions in various articles that Speedstep should be enabled for current-gen CPU's and overclock better with them enabled. (Current gen = i7 2500-2600+)