Laptop upgrade problem with i5 580m

[axe41031]

So i upgraded my wife's laptop (gateway nv55c) from a pentium p6100 to a i5 580m. noticed a pretty big increase in performance, my only problem is that turbo boost is not working. I have ran real temp to monitor the cpu and it never goes above 2.66 ghz, even with prime 95 running. more than likely its a bios issue, but there is no way to enable turbo boost in the bios. anyone have any idea what to do?

 

[boosted1g]

What you have to understand is that laptops are not designed to be upgradeable, as far as gateway, or hp, or dell is concerned is that if you want more performance you should buy a new laptop.

Gateway more then likely did not design the bios in your laptop model to have turbo core ability. Frankly you are doing better than most in that you could even upgrade the CPU, most are soldered direct to board nowadays.

You can try a BIOS update for your model.
You can try BIOS for a different gateway laptop that did support the 1st gen i5, but you have a much larger chance of bricking your motherboard bios then you have of actually having a working computer.

Sorry could not be of more help, but it is what it is.

 

[MusenMouse]

Have tried updating the BIOS? That may open up some options or just kick the turbo boost into working.

I am not familiar with Gateway laptops, but if they put in a different motherboard model for the Pentium models, it might not have the option of Turbo boost because Pentiums do not have an option for turbo boost.

 

[axe41031]

What you have to understand is that laptops are not designed to be upgradeable, as far as gateway, or hp, or dell is concerned is that if you want more performance you should buy a new laptop.

Gateway more then likely did not design the bios in your laptop model to have turbo core ability. Frankly you are doing better than most in that you could even upgrade the CPU, most are soldered direct to board nowadays.

You can try a BIOS update for your model.
You can try BIOS for a different gateway laptop that did support the 1st gen i5, but you have a much larger chance of bricking your motherboard bios then you have of actually having a working computer.

Sorry could not be of more help, but it is what it is.

Yeah I took a chance and updated the bios (hate doing that). That worked. Running at 3.2 ghz now.