![]() All systems were approaching 95 Celsius before the Turbo Boost finally turned off and the CPU fell back into the 80-85 Celsius range. We checked temperatures on a few test systems-all about 60-70 Celsius while idle-and used the Prime95 Stress test. If you do some quick Googling, you’ll see that thermal issues are no joke, and a lot of laptops are simply not properly equipped for running their CPUs over the TDP for a prolonged period. On a bit of a whim, I decided to look to the vast internets and see if anyone else experienced this behavior. What do you do when you have an awesome i7 processor that is running extremely hot while idle when you’re perfectly happy with the base clock speed? The Ugly Again, there’s often no option in the BIOS to turn off the feature and no traditional method is working within Windows either. The CPU idles at a crazy high temperature while also showing an extremely high frequency due to Turbo Mode. We’ve had plenty of enterprise-grade laptops show the exact same behavior with no option to disable Turbo Boost. The BIOS offered no option to disable Turbo Boost, and the old trick of setting the maximum processor frequency to 99% within Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced Power Settings > Processor Power Management also didn’t do the trick. The CPU would easily hit temperatures in the range of 65-80 Celsius while completely idle. Take my parent’s laptop, for example: a humble, consumer-grade ASUS laptop that has needed to be propped up on silverware since day one because the cooling system simply wasn’t powerful enough to keep it at a manageable temperature while idle. ![]() Whether the processor enters into Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and the amount of time the processor spends in that state depends on the workload and operating environment.” The Badįor over a year now I have been running into PCs on a regular basis that run extremely hot while completely idle. “Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 1 accelerates processor and graphics performance for peak loads, automatically allowing processor cores to run faster than the rated operating frequency if they’re operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits. ![]() ![]() Here’s the exact description from Intel’s site: This is a real godsend for people like me! I used to spend days tweaking my BIOS settings and running torture tests to make sure my CPU was running flawlessly and at maximum capacity. It’s something that just happens and keeps your PC running at maximum speed, without you having to do any overclocking of your own. In perfect conditions, Turbo Boost is never something you have to even think about. Note that some higher-end computers are built to sustain the Turbo Boost and have higher performing cooling systems to compensate. Your laptop’s battery will also last longer! Disabling it will make your PC run cooler and quieter. SPOILER ALERT: If you have a modern laptop that causes third-degree burns if you actually dare to rest it on your lap, it probably has a cooling system that isn’t sufficient, and Turbo Boost IS NOT helping the matter. Automatic boosts are nice, but perhaps having a button you can control isn’t such a bad idea … If you’ve got a modern computer and you’re running Windows, the odds are that you can pull up the performance tab of Task Manager and see that your processor’s frequency is changing dynamically-sometimes jumping far above the base clock speed. Intel’s Turbo Boost technology (or AMD’s Turbo Core) works on the same principle, but it’s all automatic. I’ve never actually touched a computer with a physical turbo button, but once upon a time it was common for computers to have a physical switch that would allow a processor to run at a higher speed, at the cost of increased heat and power usage. ![]()
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