Fronte my test: Your CPU multiplier Will increase by one if you enable turbo boost regardless the CPU utilization!!!
CPU utilization is took into account only when increasing +2 the first core... Are you useing i7z tool to say that it does not increase when under load? > Could everyone kindly stop spreading false information if you don't > know what you're talking about? > > On some bios, you need to have the speedstep technology (which > turboboost is a part of) enabled to make use of turboboost. You can > enable speedstep in the bios, and the associated turbo features, > without making use of underclocking - which is a kernel/userland > configured utility. In linux, you'd simply make sure the cpufeq system > is loaded up with the performance governor (always 100%), or, > depending on your distro, passed off to the userland governer with the > userland tools set to performance mode. Your CPU will never underclock > itself. > > This is separate from turbo mode, which overclocks active cores. It > can do this, basically, because the chip is designed to support the > heat from all cores at 100%. If some cores are not at 100%, the others > can be slightly overclocked as the excess heat wont overheat the chip. > (Its slightly more complicated than this, but thats the general idea) > I see no reason to have it disabled - though if your system is running > near 100% across the cores I don't think it'll see much use (I could > be wrong). > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
