As the workload on processor & operating system, and performance needs changes, Accordingly Turbo Boosting Technology executes. The maximum frequency of Turbo Boost Technology truly depends upon the active cores. (This maximum frequency in Intel i7 is calculated by specific software)

The availability of the Turbo Boosting Technology on each core depends on following factors-

- The estimated Power Consumption of the processor
- The Temperature of the processor
- The number of Active Cores.

Turbo Boosting

As this processor operating is below these specified limits results in increased work load, the processor dynamically increases the frequency by 133 MHz by short and regular intervals. This is done so as to match the user workload or possible met with the upside active cores. As conversely, if the frequency of processor exceeds (or reaches the limits) then it automatically decreases the frequency by 133 MHz which is the basic used in Turbo Boosting of i7.

Features like Overclocking & Hyper Threading of Nehalem Architecture in Intel i7 are quite depend upon this Turbo Boosting Technology. Together all these technologies results in enhanced performance as well as reduced power consumption eliminating the effects of overheating of processor.