nophoria Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Posting this here since you can't get a response from the general forum. I'm considering upgrading my i3-2100 to i5-2500, I'm wondering if it will be worth it since it has the extra power of turbo boost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain_b Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Applications do not "support" Turbo Boost. Turbo Boost is just automatic overclocking that the CPU does on its own when it's under a heavy load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nophoria Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Applications do not "support" Turbo Boost. Turbo Boost is just automatic overclocking that the CPU does on its own when it's under a heavy load. So will it kick in when playing SWTOR? I just want to know if it will help performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain_b Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 So will it kick in when playing SWTOR? I just want to know if it will help performance. Yes, the game will increase the load on the CPU and it should clock up automatically. Will you notice a difference? Not sure. For the 2500 Turbo Boost clocks the CPU from 3.3GHz up to 3.7GHz. Either way the 2500 is quite a bit faster than the 2100. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=289 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nophoria Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yes, the game will increase the load on the CPU and it should clock up automatically. Will you notice a difference? Not sure. For the 2500 Turbo Boost clocks the CPU from 3.3GHz up to 3.7GHz. Either way the 2500 is quite a bit faster than the 2100. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=289 Thank you very very much, I'm confident in spending the money for the upgrade now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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