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    turbo on or Off help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by playlisted, Mar 2, 2012.

  1. playlisted

    playlisted Notebook Enthusiast

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    hello I just got an alienware m14x recently and I have 8gb RAM. 1650 Intel i7 processor. 750gb 1600mhz hard drive. Should I have on turbo boost? or turn it off? If I am to turn it off how would i do this? Thanks

    my processor is 2.4 ghz as well.. if that means anything
     
    playlisted, Mar 2, 2012
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  2. jimbo312

    jimbo312 Notebook Consultant

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    turbo mode being off will significantly lower your temps. it won't really hurt your gaming much either. you turn it of through the system bios. i would persnally check and set what kind of temps your hitting while gaming before turning it of. download realtemp and see what your max temps hit while playing a game. if your in the 90's you might consider turning it off.
     
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  3. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    I recommend you to turn it off, because like Jimbo312 said it will reduce the temp significantly, now what the Turbo Boost actually do is it is design for everyday programs only and it is not for gaming because the Turbo Boost will temporary auto-overclock the CPU during a process/task then auto-downclock back to normal when that process/task is finish, thus increasing the speed of getting thing done as twice as fast, this sound great for task like virus scanning etc...

    However, for gaming it apply the same thing, and it is does not help boost your framerate, because most today's game are graphic intensive, so if you want a better performance in game, you might want to OC your GPU. Now since turning on the Turbo Boost will increase the temp, that's said for the normal task, for gaming it will increase twice as fast and twice as hot, the average temp with turbo boost on (base on my experience both mine & other users) is between 85C ~ 98C, me personally used to get up to 99C on core 1 while play BFBC2 and to tell you what after turn it off, the temp never get to 95C and the performance stay the same. So dont worry about in-game performance, the only downside for this is that you wont be able to use the turbo boost and some normal task will be slow down.

    See the image below for the exact location of the Turbo Boost in the BIOS, Press F2 - Setup when you first turn on the computer to enter the BIOS.

    [​IMG]
     
    CGSDR, Mar 2, 2012
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  4. Starscream

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    definitely turn off...the temp cooldown is immense. the performance hit is barely noticeable.
     
    Starscream, Mar 3, 2012
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  5. tyler27

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    only reason to keep it on is if you use emulators like me, then it greatly improves performance, but other then that keep it off, it will lower temps alot while gaming
     
    tyler27, Mar 3, 2012
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    nice hardware...
     
    Dark_Lord, Mar 3, 2012
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    Without going to change the bios, you can create a new profile of power, doubling the maximum performance and calling TURBO OFF (I did so), then go under "Processor Power Management" and then "Maximum Performance processor" and put 99%.

    So when you need to select it, and when you want the turbo, select maximum performance.

    Ciao :)
     
    NforceRaid, Mar 5, 2012
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