Turbo Boost on ASRock X58 SuperComputer

We have already discussed Turbo Boost technology in great detail in our Gigabyte mainboards review, however, we discovered that it has been implemented differently on ASRock X58 SuperComputer mainboard. When the CPU works in its nominal mode, all mainboards act the same. Even under maximum load of eight computational threads, the processor clock frequency multiplier was increased to 21. When we overclocked our processor on ASRock X58 SuperComputer, the multiplier did increase to 21, but only when the number of computational threads was four or less. With 5 threads or more the multiplier reached 21 very rarely and was mostly set at 20. Theoretically, it looks more like the “correct” implementation of the Turbo Boost technology compared with Gigabyte mainboards, where the multiplier increases to 21 in all cases, even during multi-threaded load. We would really want to see the multiplier hit 22 if there is a single-thread load in place, but that would only happen for a split second, so we shouldn’t consider this fact. Let’s see, if we will be able to benefit from the “correct” implementation of the Turbo Boost technology on ASRock X58 SuperComputer mainboard.