How to tell when Turbo Boost is activated?

[aliensporebomb]

Yeah...

It seems like its a major feature of the processor but Apple glosses over it and only one utility I know of has the ability to read the boost levels and it's static, it doesn't fluctuate.

Yeah, I'd love a "Turbo Boost" activate button - lol.

 

[-V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-]

Check out Marcel Bresink's "Temperature Monitor" application.

Pull down under window and select "show system info".

On the system information pane select "more info"

You will see something like this:

That's while running BOINC / Seti @ Home in 8 threads (8 workunits crunching at once),.

I'm keeping an eye out for more utilities that recognize this feature but this
is the only one I'm aware of so far.

The more cores used, the lower clock is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_863183&v=TOljGMRS-pQ#t=2m00s

 

[safford1977]

Mid 2012 MBAir

Pulling up an old thread here but I have the same question. Far be it from me to question Apple's authority on how to run things efficiently but I'd like to know what speed the CPU is actually operating at.

I like to rip some DVDs so I can use air play and use my apple TV but it takes so long to rip a DVD. When ripping the disk activity is far from saturating the capabilities of the system (Under 5MB/s with an external USB 2.0 drive) but the CPU usage tops out at about 62~ percent. And of course I have no way of knowing if that's at the i7's 2.0 GHZ base frequency or turbo boosted speed of 3.2 GHZ. Wish there was an app for this...?

Off topic: Is there a very efficient app for ripping DVDs? I'm currently using DVD Ripper HD.

 

[zipur]

there is a manual way to activate it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDztfFXPww

hey my MBP doesn't do that should I take it to the G-bar?

 

[Deathtrapz]

this might work

try xscan from the app store the full version at the moment is only 0.99c

its a great little app but very useful it tells you about ram, processors (the hard ware), disk usage, profile, data, history, uninstall, system(what operating systems can be run), alerts, wifi and tones more!

try it i dont know but it might work

ps: their is a 7 day free trial.