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    want to get everyones opinions for twinturbo mode

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by samrozzi, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. samrozzi

    samrozzi Notebook Consultant

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    Im pretty new to the asus g73JH and have done a little research on the twinturbo button but want to get the opinions on using it, does it actually help gaming and performance? I've read it actually slows down performance for gaming?

    Thanks
     
    samrozzi, Dec 27, 2010
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  2. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    In a nutshell: NO

    In fact, you will have slower CPU performance due to how the clock multipliers work.
     
    Chastity, Dec 28, 2010
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    Argetlam Notebook Guru

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    @Chastity, i seem to be getting a better performance in F@H with the TT mode on, i think it will benefit applications designed to use all 8 threads...

    PS - I am using the SMP client, with the -smp 7 switch and a GPU client
     
    Argetlam, Dec 28, 2010
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  4. DCx

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    Twin Turbo locks all 4 cores at 1.73 (or whatever the asus overclock is).

    Generally, that's NOT what you want, unless you've got a highly threaded program, in which case each core is fully loaded.

    But that doesn't happen with games.
     
    DCx, Dec 28, 2010
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