Turbo Enabled Overclocker Or Not?, Differences?

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Is there any performance gain from either using a Turbo enabled Overclock or not?, as im just querious as to why people have OC's without turbo, as i cant see an advantage not to have a Turbo OC, you dont need to use as much voltage, thus lower temps, or am i missing something??
 
I am taking a quite irrational approach to turbo.

If the chip runs too hot, uses too much power or draws too much current, it is designed to throttle. It flicks back to non-turbo mode many times a second, spending more and more time on the lower multi as it gets hotter. I believe some boards can stop this throttling. However this makes turbo mode looks rather like bribing people to use speed step. A higher multi, fine. Enforced speed step, absolutely not. I want to be able to choose whether to use speed step or not.

Second, Intel are keen on these 'self overclocking chips', and I believe the i5 do it to an even greater extent. Firstly this is a cop out, "our chip will run at 3.8ghz but only if you use half the cores and don't let it get too hot" is cheating. Secondly, I predict posts in the future to the effect of "my processor is at 4ghz and its cool cos I only ever use word so it never throttles" which will enrage me.

So, I choose not to use it. Firstly to make my small point that I don't approve, and don't want Intel to go down this road. Secondly because I don't want the chip multiplier hopping around all over the place when running close to its limits, there is no way in which this can be good for stability or the lifespan of the chip.

I don't expect people to agree, but I believe in this.
 
JonJ678 said:
I am taking a quite irrational approach to turbo.

If the chip runs too hot, uses too much power or draws too much current, it is designed to throttle. It flicks back to non-turbo mode many times a second, spending more and more time on the lower multi as it gets hotter. I believe some boards can stop this throttling. However this makes turbo mode looks rather like bribing people to use speed step. A higher multi, fine. Enforced speed step, absolutely not. I want to be able to choose whether to use speed step or not.

Second, Intel are keen on these 'self overclocking chips', and I believe the i5 do it to an even greater extent. Firstly this is a cop out, "our chip will run at 3.8ghz but only if you use half the cores and don't let it get too hot" is cheating. Secondly, I predict posts in the future to the effect of "my processor is at 4ghz and its cool cos I only ever use word so it never throttles" which will enrage me.

So, I choose not to use it. Firstly to make my small point that I don't approve, and don't want Intel to go down this road. Secondly because I don't want the chip multiplier hopping around all over the place when running close to its limits, there is no way in which this can be good for stability or the lifespan of the chip.

I don't expect people to agree, but I believe in this.
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I understand your point, but if the cooling is more than sufficient, which in most cases it is then the CPU doesnt get anywhere near its thermal limit and as such doesnt throttle. Anyone using the UD5 has the option of enabling or disabling speedstep, turbo and EIST.
Along the same reasoning, is it sensible to have your OCed CPU running at 4Ghz+ when its idle or you are using WORD for example. I dont think so, in this instance I think its sensible to allow the CPU to reduce its BCLK and Multiplier.
I have run numerous tests using that program you suggested and never once did the CPU throttle while under load and this is because it didnt reach the tjmax.
 
DavyBoy said:
I now prefer to o/c with turbo disabled now, for the reasons Jon mentioned above.

Though at 4.2GHz I have it enabled.

Getting 191x21 stable is a lot easier than 200x20 though.
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you need more QPI voltage for the higher BCLK, I'm going to try my 200x20 OC with the Skews we have been discussing. Remember your CPU will not throttle until it reaches it tjmax, which I'm sure you dont get anywhere near.
 
It does not only throttle because of temperature. It also throttles if it draws too much current, or if it uses too much power. These last two give me pause for thought.

My computer doesn't really spend time idle, when it's actually stable I run folding@home in the background.
 
JonJ678 said:
It does not only throttle because of temperature. It also throttles if it draws too much current, or if it uses too much power. These last two give me pause for thought.

My computer doesn't really spend time idle, when it's actually stable I run folding@home in the background.
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Where did you get that info from. Do you have a link?
I tested mine for hours when you mentioned this before and never found one instance of throttling. Most of the d0 chips are still well within their vid range anyway. Surely you need more volts for more current. My 191x21 with everything enabled doesn't get anywhere near the 130w intel spec. At what point does it throttle.
 
Here is a nice little video from Intel explaining how turbo mode works.

http://www.intel.com/technology/product/demos/turboboost/demo.htm?iid=tech_tb+demo

I think I may have posted this on these forums a while ago, but here it is again anyway.

What Jon says is right enough, it isn't just to do with heat that these chips throttle.

Though when I tested my 4.2GHz o/c with Turbo enabled with the i7 Turbo app from unclewebb it never showed any signs of throttling, but for my 4GHz o/c, I still prefer to do it without turbo boost, I kinda get a feeling as though I am cheating when using turbo tbh...
 
Here. This is the relevant Intel whitepaper, I read through it a while back. Aimed at a different audience to Davys video, I personally prefer the technical documents.
Continual measurements of temperature, current draw, and power consumption are used to dynamically assess headroom.
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I think xtreme found this to be a problem around 1.45V/90degrees, but the error on that is considerable since I only vaguely remember and don't have the thread to hand.

Perhaps a bit lower than 1.45, from post 7 here
CPU Speed in BIOS: 191 * 21 @ 1.4125v w/ LLC

Notice how i7 Turbo is reporting a multiplier of 20.875 (1/8 threads running at 20x), but all other programs still report 21x.

If I increase bclock to 200MHz (and voltage to 1.49v), the multiplier drops entirely to 20x on all threads as soon as the full load of LinX is placed on the CPU.
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Note that there is something in the bios which should disable this function, however I don't know how it is implemented.
 
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JonJ678 said:
Here. This is the relevant Intel whitepaper, I read through it a while back. Aimed at a different audience to Davys video, I personally prefer the technical documents.


I think xtreme found this to be a problem around 1.45V/90degrees, but the error on that is considerable since I only vaguely remember and don't have the thread to hand.

Perhaps a bit lower than 1.45, from post 7 here



Note that there is something in the bios which should disable this function, however I don't know how it is implemented.
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Interesting read, but I maintain its a bit irrelevant to us for a couple of reasons,

We are not getting our cpus anywhere near the voltages and temps required to enable throttling.

Most of us do not have the C-state enabled in the bios in the first place.

But like the LLC discussion, I will begin work on my 200x20 overclock forthwith......lol
 
I thought that the the ud5 was unaffected by intels TDP limit with later bios then the f3 and c1e disabled? I had the origional asus p6t deluxe and when using huge amounts of voltage at 21X 200 on a old c0 chip I could see it throtteling downwards in small increments. Thats why i changed to the ud5 and I have never seen the ud5 doing this.

Are you saying that turbo mode will throttle even though cpuz says 21x just because its reached a power consumption limit alone?
 
That's what I'm saying with the c states disabled it doesn't throttle, so it's all academic. Still gives me an excuse to use on the Wife as to why I'm still faffing about.
 
Gaidin109 said:
That's what I'm saying with the c states disabled it doesn't throttle, so it's all academic. Still gives me an excuse to use on the Wife as to why I'm still faffing about.
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LoL!!

I give mine excuses all the time to!!

@chiLLZ, if you download this tool you can use it to see whether you are suffering from turbo throttling, CPUZ wont tell you if your chip is throttling.
 
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