AMD FX Turbo Question!

Soulwatcher · 02-23-2012, 08:38 PM

Today I had the local mom and pop pc store upgrade my PC. They installed a AMD FX 8120, Ausus MB, 8GB of ddr3 1600 ram. And to be honest I notice a HUGE difference in Everquest 2 over the old Athlon 2 quad core it replaced.

My question is how will I know when the turbo mode kicks in?

Greg

DirtyBusiness · 02-23-2012, 08:52 PM

Download CPU-Z and watch the numbers. You might have to enable turbo in the bios if the shop set the computer in power save mode.

venomblade89 · 02-23-2012, 09:24 PM

It should be automatic when you do something that stresses your CPU. You can use CPU-Z to see the clock numbers in action, but there's really no need to worry about it.

Soulwatcher · 02-24-2012, 07:24 PM

Thanks guys, it was in power save mode. The turbo is now working and I am getting even higher fps in EQ2

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02-23-2012, 08:52 PM	#2
DirtyBusiness Join Date: Feb 2012 Reputation: 0 Posts: 10	Download CPU-Z and watch the numbers. You might have to enable turbo in the bios if the shop set the computer in power save mode.

02-23-2012, 09:24 PM	#3
venomblade89 Join Date: May 2010 Reputation: 311 Posts: 1,071	It should be automatic when you do something that stresses your CPU. You can use CPU-Z to see the clock numbers in action, but there's really no need to worry about it.

02-24-2012, 07:24 PM	#4
Soulwatcher Join Date: Mar 2010 Reputation: 147 Posts: 535	Thanks guys, it was in power save mode. The turbo is now working and I am getting even higher fps in EQ2 .