I have a DH67CL / i5-2500K PC. It has a 650W Gold power supply and no graphics card, so power is never an issue. It has Noctua CPU cooling.
I also have a DH67BL / i5-2405S PC. It has a 650W Bronze power supply and no graphics card, so power is never an issue. It has Noctua CPU cooling. I bought the i5-2405S expecting to install it in a media center, but those plans changed, so I ended up with a spare CPU. I only use this PC as a lab system, e.g. running anti-virus scans on external disks.
Now I wish I had bought a 95W CPU for the DH67BL because it would not be constrained by wattage. Looking at the DH67BL Performance Tuning Guide, it appears that I might be able to convert the i5-2405S into a 95W one.
In BIOS, I have the following default parameters:
i5-2405S i5-2500K
Host Clock Frequency 100 100
Maximum Non-Turbo Ratio 25 33
Intel Turbo Boost Technology enable enable
Burst Mode Power Limit 81 118
Sustained Mode Time 1 1
Sustained Mode Power Limit 65 95
IGD Current Limit 32 32
4-Core Ratio Limit 26 34
3-Core Ratio Limit 28 35
2-Core Ratio Limit 32 36
1-Core Ratio Limit 33 37
Can I convert the i5-2405S into a 95W one simply by changing Burst Mode Power Limit to 118, Sustained Mode Power Limit to 95, and the four Core Ratio Limits to 34-35-36-37?
Can I change the initial clock speed simply by changing Host Clock Frequency to something higher than 2.5, perhaps 3.0?
Given that this is an 'S' CPU and a DH67 board, will it even allow me to save the new values?
P.S. Given that Intel has discontinued support for the Turbo Boost Technology Monitor 2.6, is there any place I can still find it?
Message was edited by: any mouse. Added a sentence to explain use of PC.