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    Performance turbo boost

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by arkanovi88, May 6, 2011.

  1. arkanovi88

    arkanovi88 Newbie

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    I have a question regarding the "Turbo boost/Twin boost" function... How do you use it? Is it the high performance function in the P4G?

    The buttons in the top left just rotate between functions... is it a completely seperate program?

    Secondly... I have a gtx460m 2630qm processor, 8gig ram and am noticing a slight choppiness when playing sc2 on ultra, aswell as bc2 on high, is this normal for these specs?
     
  2. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Im pretty sure the SW is the same as the JH and that hitting the centre button of the 3 in the top left turns on twin turbo mode, I see the turbo button in Hybrid P4G also bottom left. However because of windows 7 timing issues it will not give you the boost you expect and you need to read THIS thread which tell you how to make sure o/c the CPU is timed correctly with the memory timings.

    Also Twin Turbo only gives 10% boost better to use SETFSB and pay the $8 to get the code for your laptop. Im up 32% against my stock clocks but this only makes a difference in games/programs by using the settings mentioned in the above thread.

    The GTX460 is only a mid range graphics card and debate and benchmarks have shown that it is not as powerful as the 5870M as such I personally cannot run Ultra smoothly even with my 5870 running o/c'd so I doubt that you can. Although, yes your Sandy Bridge is powerful enough for the CPU features far so against my 720QM, but you may need to turn down the GPU settings.

    I hope you do not have the BB version of the SW model. If so you have the 1GB 460 GTX and that is why its not performing - Its wack to put it nicely.
     
  3. arkanovi88

    arkanovi88 Newbie

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    dkillone Notebook Evangelist

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    There is no TwinTurbo on the SW models as well as we will never be able to OC the 2630m.

    Best bet is to grab MSI Afterburner and OC the 460m, should easily hit 800mhz on the gpu core, and 1500mhz on memory.
     
  6. PC Solutions

    PC Solutions Notebook Consultant

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    I am curious about the TurboBoost as well. I have a G51JX-X2 laptop and did a clean install. I try to install the TurboBoost that I downloaded from the ASUS site and it tells me that "The computer does not meet the minimal system requirements for installing this software""

    Anyone help with this??