Can't seem to disable Turbo Boost

RedDragonXXX · Jan 27, 2011

I have Gigabyte UD7 and in the BIOS I disabled the Intel Turbo Boost, however when I get into the Windows and check the CPUz it's still running at 1.6GHz as if the Turbo Boost is still on.

Am I missing something?

BTW I have the latest BIOS from the Gigabytes site, 7a.

Nut-Flush · Jan 27, 2011

What is the CPU in question?

RedDragonXXX · Jan 27, 2011

2600K

Nut-Flush · Jan 27, 2011

Hmmm... Sounds like your power saving features are on... Disable C1E... C-State, or anything with a C... in the power saving section under advanced...

DaveHCYJ · Jan 27, 2011

You need turbo boost to overclock the sandybridge CPUs, turn it back on.

I believe its one of the power saving features, don't remeber the name right now, that dials down the CPU to the 16x multiplier at idle. Whatever its called, leave it on too. Disabling the power saving features don't really gain you any overclocking headroom unless you are really pushing the limits, but even then it doesn't sound like it helps much or at all depending on the CPU. You might as well enjoy the power savings and leave it on.

The way OCing in sandybridge works is by upping the turbo multiplier, and then when the CPU has some load it will turbo up to your overclock.

Just a nickname · Jan 27, 2011

Dave I see on your sig you do 4.4GHz. What is your vantage score? I want to compare my recent 4.4GHz OC i5-750 score with your.

DaveHCYJ · Jan 27, 2011

Just a nickname said:
Dave I see on your sig you do 4.4GHz. What is your vantage score? I want to compare my recent 4.4GHz OC i5-750 score with your.

PM sent. I don't want to get this thread off topic.

Sams · Jan 27, 2011

The setting you are looking for to solve your problem schould be:

Intel® SpeedStep Technology

Hope I´m not mixing things up here

Remlore · Jan 29, 2011

DaveHCYJ said:
You need turbo boost to overclock the sandybridge CPUs, turn it back on.

I believe its one of the power saving features, don't remeber the name right now, that dials down the CPU to the 16x multiplier at idle. Whatever its called, leave it on too. Disabling the power saving features don't really gain you any overclocking headroom unless you are really pushing the limits, but even then it doesn't sound like it helps much or at all depending on the CPU. You might as well enjoy the power savings and leave it on.

The way OCing in sandybridge works is by upping the turbo multiplier, and then when the CPU has some load it will turbo up to your overclock.

Correct. leave the tboost on. I oc'd to 4.4 and was stable with the stock HS although temps did get slightly above 90 after a few mins with prime95.
But the system was stable. If you use the Genie, it'll do a nice 4.2 and run sweet. I'll upgrade my HS soon, just playing around with the stock setup to see what it can do. I really wouldn't change anything, maybe the ram voltage to around 1.645 and set your V to Low instead of High.. but that didn't make a difference at 4.4 Ghz for me .... Cinebench @ 4.2 was 8.17

4.4 I didn't want to try because it was going over 90C... not with the stock HS. XMP mode works great wit 12800 DDR3.

Remlore · Jan 29, 2011

Okay, I did a Cinebench @ 4.4 OC ... got an 8.54!

Although, the temps got up to 93C a couple times .. they stayed around 82 ~ 88 with spikes as high as 93! Great CPU!
Get that cosair heatsink and 4.7 ~ 5.0 is going to be in the 9's or maybe even hit 10!

turbohans · Mar 4, 2011

Sams said:
The setting you are looking for to solve your problem schould be:

Intel® SpeedStep Technology

Hope I´m not mixing things up here

Disabling that does not make it go away though.

I am having the same problem disabling this feature myself as most ALL of my games do not load my cpu enough to bring it up off that 16x multi...

EDIT: Yea I figured it out though searching other threads,, just need to disable that and all that other "C" stuff.

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