• Login
  • Register
  • Dolphin Forums
  • Home
  • FAQ
  • Download
  • Wiki
  • Code


Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums › Dolphin Emulator Discussion and Support › General Discussion v
« Previous 1 ... 218 219 220 221 222 ... 367 Next »

Use intel turbo boost for dolphin
View New Posts | View Today's Posts

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
Use intel turbo boost for dolphin
09-30-2011, 08:49 AM
#1
Seph Offline
Member
***
Posts: 135
Threads: 14
Joined: Sep 2011
So I got an i5 which basically goes from 3,1 to 3,4GHZ (turboboost). Is there a way to make it run constantly @3,4GHZ for Dolphin? This guy here is doing something but I don't know what it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSoNfQRapM
Find
Reply
09-30-2011, 09:24 AM
#2
HawaiianPunch Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 878
Threads: 2
Joined: Apr 2011
No. Your CPU should Turbo-boost a bit, but not to 3.4Ghz because that's only for 1 core. The guy in the video is forcing Dolphin to only use cores 2 and 3 of his CPU. However, Turbo-boost is smart enough to do that itself so it doesn't make much of a difference.
Main Laptop:
Dell XPS 17
i7 2720QM @ 2.2GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 555M
Windows 7 64-bit
[Image: salsa.gif?noCache=1324617601]
Find
Reply
09-30-2011, 05:12 PM
#3
Seph Offline
Member
***
Posts: 135
Threads: 14
Joined: Sep 2011
Oh, that's a pity. Sad
Find
Reply
10-01-2011, 02:17 AM
#4
Zee530 Offline
Above and Beyond
*******
Posts: 1,747
Threads: 12
Joined: Jan 2011
I wonder Idea if your processor is 2.3ghz and turbo boosts to 2.9ghz and you decide to overclock to 2.6ghz, will it turbo boost to a higher clock rate or just destroy the processor Exclamation
......?????
Find
Reply
10-01-2011, 05:33 AM
#5
NaturalViolence Offline
It's not that I hate people, I just hate stupid people
*******
Posts: 9,013
Threads: 24
Joined: Oct 2009
Depends how you overclock. You CAN do both, or one, or neither.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."  
-Ron Swanson

"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony
Website Find
Reply
10-01-2011, 09:24 AM
#6
Altmaster
Unregistered
 
(10-01-2011, 02:17 AM)Blaze X Wrote: I wonder Idea if your processor is 2.3ghz and turbo boosts to 2.9ghz and you decide to overclock to 2.6ghz, will it turbo boost to a higher clock rate or just destroy the processor Exclamation
Turbo Boost will maintain the same target. It will certainly not destroy the processor under any circumstances.
Reply
10-01-2011, 05:07 PM
#7
Zee530 Offline
Above and Beyond
*******
Posts: 1,747
Threads: 12
Joined: Jan 2011
Well, the whole point was maybe if turbo boost could reach a higher value but if it maintains on the same target then no need for overclocking and i seriously doubt you could overclock to a higher value than the turbo boost
......?????
Find
Reply
10-01-2011, 05:51 PM
#8
Altmaster
Unregistered
 
(10-01-2011, 05:07 PM)Blaze X Wrote: Well, the whole point was maybe if turbo boost could reach a higher value but if it maintains on the same target then no need for overclocking and i seriously doubt you could overclock to a higher value than the turbo boost
It's not quite that simple. Turbo Boost is only applicable to poorly-threaded applications. Admittedly that's most games in existence and, in this context, Dolphin as well. If you were looking for performance gain in other applications such as media encoding, manual overclocking would be far superior (to say nothing of the fact that Turbo Boost can be somewhat conservative).

I haven't really played much with motherboards that allow you to adjust the Turbo Boost parameters, but as far as the default behaviour goes, I'm afraid your serious doubt is quite misplaced. With the current generation of Intel CPUs you can exceed the default Turbo Boost target values by laughable amounts. My i7 2600k Turbo Boosts to 3.8ghz (from 3.4 stock). I've disabled TB and manually overclocked it to 4.0ghz for the sake of it really. I could easily exceed 4.5ghz if I wanted.
Reply
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »


  • View a Printable Version
  • Subscribe to this thread
Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)



Powered By MyBB | Theme by Fragma

Linear Mode
Threaded Mode