The most important power limits for Intel CPUs are PL1 and PL2. While PL1 is the sustained or average power that the CPU is set to draw over time, PL2 is the turbo power that the CPU can draw for ...

Turbo Boost, a feature that increases the speed of a CPU's cores under certain conditions, has been available on Intel CPUs since 2008. But before I dive into what those conditions are, I need to ...

I just got a Core i7-7700k. CPU-Z says the multiplier is 8 - 45. However, it's nearly always at 4.5 GHz with the sporadic jump to 0.8 GHz on a blip. I thought it's supposed to be 4.2 GHz and it will ...

If you need to improve your laptop's battery life, turning off Turbo Boost is a great way to do it. Those with access to Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility can go even farther, with impressive results.

Today, Intel announced the Core i9-9900KS, which is a highly binned 9900K with 8 cores and 16 threads, and a 5GHz all core Turbo Boost. The Turbo Boost is what is important here; the 9900K offers a ...

Windows 10 19H2 will include optimizations to how instructions are processed by the CPU in order to increase the performance and reliability of the operating system and its applications. When a CPU is ...