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November 29th, 2011 19:00

How does turbo boost function?

Hello. I recently downloaded a program from intel to monitor my processor speed. I have an intel i-7 2630 2.0 GHZ, which should go up to 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost.

While running battlefield 3, my processor only went up to around 2.6, and nothing higher. Is there something wrong? Or do I have to manually enable turbo boost? 

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November 29th, 2011 22:00

ya same here but i have 2.40Ghz i5 with boost its suppose to go up to 3.0Ghz but only goes 2.80Ghz when playing BF3 on High settings

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November 30th, 2011 01:00

Go into your BIOS and up the turbo boost. Ether use a higher OC setting then what is being used or do it yourself. To check it turn your power option in the control panel to high performance. Then go download CPU-Z, its free. If you want the CPU to clock down when not being stressed then use the balanced power option.

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