Turbo mode for i5/i7?

[jsnuff1]

Is there any way to tell when the new processors are in turbo mode and shutting a core down and increasing clock frequency?

Would be cool if there was a way to force this and see performance differences...

 

[jsnuff1]

no one else interested in this?

 

[jawa12083]

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I dont know about forcing it into turbo, but i know that you can tell if its on or not using software...

 

[MBHockey]

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I dont know about forcing it into turbo, but i know that you can tell if its on or not using software...

For Mac? I'm aware of PC software that will do this but none for Mac.

 

[jsnuff1]

What software is this? Im really curious how this turbo boost works and would like to see it in action.

Im using iStat to monitor the cores, and I never see any of the cores shutdown.

 

[ano0oj]

turboboost is automatic....all I know is that processors go up .5-.6Ghz more for tasks that require a lot of cpu power

 

[JoshGlzBrk]

This works on Windows only and only when running bootcamp.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18353


It's the Intel Turbo Boost Monitor widget that clings to your windows 7 desktop.

The i7-620M has three basic tiers for turbo boost.


Both cores have a base clock of 2.66ghz, both cores can turbo up to 3.06ghz, and one core by itself can turbo up to 3.33ghz.

 

[Quetsche]

Hi.
On my old quad G5 PPC, i have a pref pane inside
Macintosh HD1/Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/

that is named "Processor.prefPane"

It allows me to manually shut down cores. I'm not sure if they still have that with intel macs, but it's worth a look.

 

[jsnuff1]

awesome thanks! Hope they make a mac version of this.

 

[FieryFurnace]

This works on Windows only and only when running bootcamp.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18353


It's the Intel Turbo Boost Monitor widget that clings to your windows 7 desktop.

The i7-620M has three basic tiers for turbo boost.


Both cores have a base clock of 2.66ghz, both cores can turbo up to 3.06ghz, and one core by itself can turbo up to 3.33ghz.

That's a nice little program, thanks! 🙂

 

[aliensporebomb]

Ah

Marcel Bresink's "Temperature Monitor" has this display in the program under the window menu in system information:

That is while running BOINC / Seti at Home with 8 workunits crunching at once.

 

[phenozine]

I would like to know this also. I would like an app or something that will give me more info on my CPU and Mem usage / speeds. Something that will indicate if Turbo is being used.