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    Twin Turbo is useless. But now totally useless.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Yiddo, Apr 8, 2011.

  1. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    I know the Twin Turbo is a massively overated temperature raising gimmick but it was still my massively overated temperature raising gimmick and now its not working :mad:

    I repasted other day and when she fired up I was faced a couple of BSOD and a lot of RAM fiddling later I got her going but with one problem - Whenever I hit the Twin Turbo mode the screen would lock up and BSOD and dump.

    Everything is connected and running fine since the repaste so I entered in Safe mode and switched the Turbo mode off and then restarted and it was turning on and off as normal from then on. I checked on CPU-z/HWINFO32 and although my temps are raising as they normally would when I hit the TT button my FSB does not raise it stays exactly the same without it on.

    I have reinstalled the ATK drivers and fiddled chronically. Im at your disposal.
     
    Yiddo, Apr 8, 2011
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    G73SW is automatically overclocked so that button is useless now.
     
    NorthArmy, Apr 8, 2011
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    I was looking for a fix not an upgrade :p Do you secretly work for Asus! Avast! Marketing Scheme!! :D
     
    Yiddo, Apr 8, 2011
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    This brings me to a quick question, how do I get my G73 to 2.8ghz from the 1.6? I thought by that Twin turbo thing, but I didn't see any speed improvement?
     
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    Twin turbo just pushes up the FSB so that the minimum core runs at 1.73ghz and the turbo mode can reach 2.93ghz.

    The I7 has its own Turbo mode that is separate to twin turbo.

    The boost depends on how many CPU cores are active the more cores that are idle the faster remaining cores can be clocked. When 3 or 4 cores are operational the 720QM will run at about 1.6/1.73 GHz. When two cores are active the CPU may be boosted up to 2.4 GHz. The frequency can be boosted even higher to 2.8 GHz only when one core is working.
     
    Yiddo, Apr 8, 2011
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