Is this a good CPU?

[Yoo Song Won]

http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz

 

I have this and it says 3.30GHz as base... But what on earth is max turbo frequency? It says 3.70GHz... Can I somewhat make my CPU go up to 3.70GHz... If so, how?

[Kobathor]

Max turbo for one core is 3.7Ghz.

 

Maybe it's max turbo for all cores, I have no idea.

[The Official Czex]

 

[Belgarathian]

To answer the question in your thread title, we need to know what you're using it for. It's a Haswel CPU, so yes...  It's a good CPU. 

[AverageHardware]

Basically, when your CPU is under heavy load, it will turbo up to 3.7ghz. Under normal operation it will cap out at 3.3

[LtStaffel]

Yes that's a decent CPU

[i_build_nanosuits]

http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz

 

I have this and it says 3.30GHz as base... But what on earth is max turbo frequency? It says 3.70GHz... Can I somewhat make my CPU go up to 3.70GHz... If so, how?

depend on the motherboard some of them will allow you to lock the turbo to all 4 cores but not all of them do...and if they don,t you can have one core turbo to 3.7ghz, 2 cores can turbo to 3.6ghz and 4 cores will turbo to 3.5ghz (i think)

[TechLaller]

http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz

 

I have this and it says 3.30GHz as base... But what on earth is max turbo frequency? It says 3.70GHz... Can I somewhat make my CPU go up to 3.70GHz... If so, how?

Turbo boost means that your processor will automatically adjust and increase its clock speed when needed. Since it is a non k series processor you cannot overclock it or in other words increase its frequency... Hopefully that helped.

[Arwanell]

depends on what are you using it

i have it and in gaming it's a beast