GA-Z68XP-UD3 Intel Turbo On or Off for Overclocking?

[kram36]

I was on another manufacture forum and I was told Intel Turbo must be turned on to oc a 2600k cpu by the product manager. Now I'm confused on this. I have had it turned off and my GA-Z68XP-UD3 board and all programs show the cpu at 4.2Ghz with a 42 multiplier. Is this a manufacture specific deal? I read a couple post here saying to turn off Intel Turbo.

Help with my confusion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Aussie Allan]

 
    Welcome kram36 ..... in fact a good question ..... it's one of those "Yes/No/it depends"

      Intel Tubo boost is in fact a thermal feature which Dynamically changes the multiplier depending on thermal load .... so if your running at say 3.2 Ghz and well with in the thermal tolerance..........Tubo boost will kick in and raise the multiplier and give you say 3.6Ghz...... but this can go the other way with Tubo boost enabled when trying to reach say 4Ghz......turbo boost can kick in .....drop the multiplier to 3.7Ghz .... Little bit of big brother this advice as the last thing Intel want is a CPU RMA'd

  On air this is probably a good thing......on water .... not so!

  High end overclocking .... the last thing you need is some feature or app kicking in and changing settings while your testing for a stable overclock

  Read this for more detail.......http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/forced-induction-intel-turbo-boost-works-technology-explained/

  Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

I always turn off "Turbo" when I start overclocking. You want complete control over the way things run and having Turbo enabled takes some conrtol away from you. It will actually stop you reaching the highest levels.

[kram36]

Thanks for the welcome and information. It sure seemed to me I was setting up the oc correctly by turning Turbo off on the Gigabyte board I have here.

What about another manufacture board not allowing the cpu to be overclocked without having Turbo on, does that seem odd? I don't have a SB board made by that manufacture and it caught me by surprise when the product manager stepped into the thread and said "Turbo needs to be enabled, that is how the chip increases multiplier" which made me look like a complete idiot and sent me on my mission here to see if what I had done on the Gigabyte board was wrong. Being that was the product manager I must assume that the cpu can not be oc'ed on their boards without Turbo turned on.