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  1. Bug #429036
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 429036

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Bacchus (r-ehmann) wrote :

-If you are using a windows 7 host, Ubuntu won't care about TB. Windows 7 will manage everything just fine. In fact, you could run good 'ol MS-DOS 5.0 in VBox and turbo boost will work on in your VM.

-Here is an easy way to find out if turbo-boost is actually working (in a real world scenario)...

sudo apt-get install hardinfo && hardinfo

Run CPU N-Queens. The result for my turbo-boosted (properly working 2.6.32 kernel) is about 0.88 sec.
When I run CPU N-Queens on the "stock" 2.6.31 Kernel the result is over 2 seconds.
(N-Queens is a single threaded benchmark).

(A new menu entry should show up under "System Tools" called "System Profiler and Benchmark". (Just in-case you would like to re-run the program in the future.))

Just as a reference, I have an I720 1.6 GHz; 2.8 w/ Turbo.