Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

[overload1977]

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is the exciting new features that Intel has built into latest-generation Intel chips

 

The lowest i7 model i believe at 1.6GHz with turbo boost Technology will go up to 2.8GHz.

an entire processor will clock up to 2.8ghz. You will never see an instance where some cores clock up to 2.8ghz while others stay at 1.6ghz. Since each core will clock up to 2.8ghz, each thread clocks up to that speed as well.

 

Think back to Intel's first foray into Hyperthreading. They took a single core processor, and added hyperthreading. Thus, if it was a Pentium 4 3.33ghz processor, each thread ran at 3.33ghz.

 

It isn't too good to be true. This is just the nature of the Core i5 and Core i7 series. Now... will the computer ALWAYS clock up to 2.8ghz? Nope i do think so, It all depends on the demand, and the current temperature of the processor. There will be plenty of instances where your computer, all 4 cores and all 8 threads will stay at 1.6ghz.

 

the thing is does it work who knows, i have yet to get a Intel i7 quad core cpu maybe i will build one next year. :thumbsup:

 

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology link >>>>>>> http://www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/

[TheTerminator2004]

Um, no. Hyperthreading just allowed a single 3.3ghz processor to appear to have two cores, which allowed for more efficient time allocation to multiple processes. It was still only one 3.3ghz core, running at 3.3ghz - and because of that, it was still only doing one thing at a time, even if it appeared to be able to handle multiple threads at once.

 

It looks to me as though this turbo boost technology thing is simply a power saving/efficiency thing. All it means is that the processor runs at a reduced speed when it doesn't have much to do, and speeds back up to normal speed when running cpu intensive applications.