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    Do you still use turbo when you over clock the fsb?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by bigun08, Apr 3, 2011.

  1. bigun08

    bigun08 Notebook Consultant

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    Well so far the best I have been able to get my r2 i7 up to is 150 but I was wondering if turbo should still be enabled when over locking.
     
    bigun08, Apr 3, 2011
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    You should leave turbo on if your only doing 150 fsb. Without turbo you would be limiting your cpu's frequency.

    The base clock for the cpu is 1.2GHZ (9x133) and turbo will allow the cpu to go up to 2.266GHZ depending on how many cores are active and thermal limits.
    If you overclock to 150 fsb w/o turbo your max frequency would be 1.35GHZ (9x150) no matter how many cores are active.
     
    MaxGeek, Apr 4, 2011
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