A note about Turbo-boost and VirtualBox

Cogman

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Sep 19, 2000
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I didn't realize this at the time. Installing virtualBox will disable turbo-boost on your i7s.. I'm not kidding :). I was doing some optimization work and noticed a DRAMATIC decrease in speed. Well, after backtracking what I had changed on my computer, I found that the installation of VirtualBox was the only thing I could think of that really changed.

Uninstaller virtual box, rebooted, and viola, turboboost started running like normal. It was the weirdest thing. Just thought I would share.