Turbo Boost Switcher is a little application for Mac computers that allows to enable and/or disable the Turbo Boost feature.
It installs a precompiled kernel extension (32 or 64 bits depending on your system) that updates the Turbo Boost MSR register, so It will ask for your admin password when using it.
It’s installed on your Mac status bar and allows you to:
- Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese (beta), Russian (beta), German (beta), Polish (beta), French (beta), Swedish (beta)
- macOS High Sierra ready.
- Visually know if Turbo Boost is enabled or disabled at any time.
- Enable / Disable Turbo Boost manually, getting up to a 25% more battery life and lowering down the CPU Temp up to 20ºC. (check this).
- Fan and Temperature charts.
- Configure it to disable Turbo Boost automatically at launch.
- Enable / Disable Turbo Boost automatically for a set of apps (only on Pro version).
- Set default mode for Turbo Boost Enabled or not (On or Off)
- Disable Turbo Boost when battery charger is not connected (only on Pro version).
- Disable Turbo Boost automatically when battery goes below a configurable level (only on Pro version).
- OSX Notifications/Alerts integration (only on Pro version).
- Asks for root password only once (only on Pro version).
- Status Bar configurable.
- Status Bar fully configurable (Temperature, fans, etc, only on Pro version).
- Display CPU Load
- Check your CPU temp and fan speed.
- Display temps in ºC and ºF (only on Pro version).
- Set it to open at login.
-Automatically restore Turbo Boost on exit.
Features
- Monitors CPU, RAM, GPU, network, and logical drives.
- Create graphs for all metrics.
- Allows for lots of customization.
- Allows alerts for various values.
- Allows binding hotkeys.
- Supports monitors of all DPI types.
- Has a clock at the top.
The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
The Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.