i7 3820 Turbo question

[daonlypoo]

I've got a 3820 and I adore it, my system's pretty much solely for gaming and multimedia, but I also use it for all of my schooling and it works great.  That being said I don't overclock it despite it being water cooled, perhaps I should start.  I noticed you guys speak of adjust the base clock, but on my asrock x79 mother board bios it says I can just put it on turbo which puts it at 4 ghz.  Is there any disadvantage to simply using turbo instead of performing a real overclock?  I'm sorry if this comes off newbish, I am quite new to PC's in general but I'm trying to learn everything I can.

[Shd0w2]

You can do that, unless you want to OC it more than 4ghz. 4.4GHZ is really where it stops getting good.

[xXButchXx]

Yeah it would be nice to overclock past turbo. It'll give a good performance boost.

[daonlypoo]

So there's no real difference in just using the turbo function as opposed to changing the base clock and all that?  I was just confused about that as I've seen quite a few i7 3820 overclocking reviews at various places that speak of manipulating the base clock and the multipliers just to get to 3.9ghz, and it seemed like they were quite pleased with that, I was just wondering if there's something bad about simply doing turbo as it says it's 4 ghz.  I mean am I missing something?  I honestly don't know.  Turbo 4ghz does mean that it overclocks all four cores right?  Also I should note in the past I attempted to overclock this cpu myself and I guess I'm just not very good at it because I ended up screwing things up quite a bit, so essentially I just want to make sure that the idiot proof way(turbo) is just as good as the more complex adjustments to the base clocks and multipliers and such.