I7 - 2630QM Boost Question

Dead_Assassin · 2 Dec 2011 at 22:28

I have i7-2630QM processor 2.00 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz

The most ive seen it boost to is 2.60 GHz and thats even opening Photoshop CS 5 with a large Jpeg photograph , or am i missing something :confused:

Any help

Tee Hee Johnson · 3 Dec 2011 at 02:17

Might be using 2 cores at 2.6?

Try a single threaded benchmark, the one core should hit 2.9

(just to ensure all is ok!)

DotA · 3 Dec 2011 at 17:19

The i7 2630 turbos to 2.6ghz on 4 cores, 2.8ghz on 2 cores and 2.9ghz on a single cores

Dead_Assassin · 3 Dec 2011 at 20:35

DotA said:
The i7 2630 turbos to 2.6ghz on 4 cores, 2.8ghz on 2 cores and 2.9ghz on a single cores

So i have 4 cores at it turbos to 2.6ghz ? is that a bad or good thing ? :confused:

I never see it over 2.6ghz on the turbo monitor

DotA · 3 Dec 2011 at 23:03

Dead_Assassin said:
So i have 4 cores at it turbos to 2.6ghz ? is that a bad or good thing ?

I never see it over 2.6ghz on the turbo monitor

depends how many cores a program usses, if the program uses only a sinlge core then it can turbo that core to 2.9ghz from 2.0ghz but if the program uses 2 cores it can turbo to 2.8ghz.

it does this as at 2.00ghz it uses less power and runs cooler then if it was working at 2.9ghz all the time and it only goes to 2.9ghz if it needs to.

you might not be seeing it at 2.9ghz becouse A its using more then one core to run the program you are using or B it dosent need to use that much power and only needs 2.6ghz to run it.

jamjar · 4 Dec 2011 at 00:02

DotA said:
depends how many cores a program usses, if the program uses only a sinlge core then it can turbo that core to 2.9ghz from 2.0ghz but if the program uses 2 cores it can turbo to 2.8ghz.

it does this as at 2.00ghz it uses less power and runs cooler then if it was working at 2.9ghz all the time and it only goes to 2.9ghz if it needs to.

you might not be seeing it at 2.9ghz becouse A its using more then one core to run the program you are using or B it dosent need to use that much power and only needs 2.6ghz to run it.

yeah a great idea for a cpu in my view ! i have the i7 2.2ghz which boosts up to 3.10ghz and its amazing ! seen it go to 3ghz once so to answer that yes they do work and yours is fine