I suggest you to set it to 5% or so.Īnd that’s it, no more Turbo Boost, no more overheating and if there is a need - these changes are very easy to revert. Scroll down to Processor power management and expand it.Įxpand Maximum processor state and modify both On battery and Plugged in to 99%.Īlso please make sure, that Minimum processor state is not greater than Maximum processor state (in this case - 99%), because this fix won’t work. Then click on Change advanced power settings. I use high performance for CPU intensive tasks, such as gaming). Go into Power options **(Control panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options) and click **Change plan settings near your plan (e.g. And actually it worked! I reduced the CPU temperature to a manageable 80 C (almost 20 C difference!).Īnd now onto how I did it… How to disable Intel Turbo Boost? After few days it struck me - I could play with Windows power settings. However, after googling for several hours I found out, that there’s no way to disable it (unless there’s a switch in the BIOS, but there was nothing like it on mine). A boost from 2 GHz to 2.9 GHz on a laptop will definitely take it one step closer to frying it, so I knew I must try to disable it. From my recent overclocking experience I knew that OC = heat, thus I quickly found my first suspect - Intel Turbo Boost. The maximum temperature (according to Intel website) is 100 C for my CPU and I was getting 90-97 C. The CPU was idling at ~50 C, while when I was playing a relatively “heavy” game (like Team Fortress2 or Black Ops) it was getting hot, too hot actually.

I sometimes like to play games on my laptop and I often monitor the temperatures. Intel Turbo Boost is very useful in certain situations, especially if you’re doing “heavy” computational work, so you might ask why bother disabling it? Well, I recently found one reason.

So basically if your CPU was designed for 2 GHz Clock speed, Turbo Boost can dynamically overclock it to 2.9 GHz based on the workload (these speeds are here just as an example).

Intel Turbo Boost is a relatively new technology, which increases the speed of the Intel CPU on demand, but does it by overclocking it.

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