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Originally Posted by Arclight
Turbo boost shouldn't increase temps; it works by shutting down cores that aren't used and "boosting" the active ones. Basically, CPUs are designed for a certain power-envelope. Overclock a normal CPU and the consumption goes up, and temps along with it. But by shutting down unused cores, "turbo boost" keeps the CPU within it's envelope while boosting performance for apps that don't utilize all cores. (most games, for example)
That said, any improvement over the stock cooler is good.  |
Oh I must have got my terminology wrong again. By "turbo boost" I meant the built-in auto-overclocking feature on the i5 processor. It can dynamically change the clock speed of each core according to factors like load and temperature. Apparently each core can go as high as 3.2GHz (the default is 2.66) and that's without the user doing any overclocking at all (i.e. without changing multiplier or FSB speeds). Or so I read somewhere...