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    Intel Turbo Boost Monitor

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by natiayS, Jun 13, 2010.

  1. natiayS

    natiayS Notebook Enthusiast

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    natiayS, Jun 13, 2010
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    natiayS
    The Gadget is visually the same.You should still be seeing the Turbo Boost activity within the gadget.I had a look at the release notes for new features & fixes.If your not seeing the Turbo Boost activity you should check in bios that you have Turbo on & Speedstep enabled.Thanks for the heads up on the release.
     
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    natiayS Notebook Enthusiast

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    I,ve got the turbo boost activity on my aw, the only problem with the previous version is the boost monitor is not stable, the blue bar always moving up and down even there is no activity at all on aw laptop. Now no more blue bar jumping when idle..

    Same goes to my lenovo ideapad y550p
     
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    To be honest i never had a issue with previous version it was very stable.I had no spurious visuals to speak off . ;)
     
    SAUCE, Jun 13, 2010
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    Aikimox Weihenstephaner!

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    Nice gadget! Thanks for the link.
     
    Aikimox, Jun 13, 2010
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  6. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    I see what your saying. Would be nice if they had one showing all cores vs one CPU. I know others exist but Intel should release one.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 13, 2010
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    unclewebb ThrottleStop Author

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    Sounds like the old version might have been reporting things correctly. Turbo boost can be constantly changing whether your CPU is fully loaded or idle at the desktop. That's how Intel designed this feature.

    ThrottleStop monitors high performance timers within the CPU for each thread and reports exactly what each thread of each core is up to. Hopefully it agrees with the new widget.

    http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/3/1794507/ThrottleStop.zip
     
    unclewebb, Jun 13, 2010
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