- May 21, 2010
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Ok so I noticed in my various monitoring utilities my processor speed is basically stationary at 2.93GHz (I have the i7 860, 2.8GHz). Now I am not complaining a whole lot but I thought turbo boost is supposed to "overclock" cores, the less cores being used the faster the frequency. Well, all 4 cores are stationary at this 2.93GHz, from reading online it is supposed to turbo higher than that if only one core is being used... No matter if I am using 1 core or 4 cores the processor is clocked at 2.93GHz across all 4 cores and won't budge from there. I checked all the settings in the bios to make sure they were correct and they seemed to be. Turbo boost was set on auto, so I enabled it just to see if that changed things and it didn't. Any suggestions are appreciated!