Turbo Boost Ubuntu

Question

Hello and good afternoon,

I'm fairly new to the Ubuntu ecosystem and i was wondering if there is a way to disable turbo boost on my machine (Bios option not available) i tried following a guide from back in 2015 using msr-tools but did not worked as intended not sure if its even possible but its making my computer fan spinning loudly while I'm just web browsing and i do not use anything intensive that requires a boots on the CPU. My question is: Is there a way to disable turbo boost completely?

As you are running 14.04 this means 2 things: A) Your question will likely be closed soon and B) You have an old laptop that might need dust cleaned off fan and internal components (like CPU) See: Stop cpu from overheating — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Jul 01 '19 at 20:13
Sorry im not using 14.04 i'm currently using the latest one which is 18.04.02 — Vilden, Jul 01 '19 at 20:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '19 at 20:07

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To disable turbo boost (for Intel anyway) use this command:

$ echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
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Another option is to limit your CPU frequencies to non-turbo boost speeds or even lower. For this purpose I wrote cpuf:

GUI or simple Bash script to throttle the CPU?

Visit the link to copy the script or get more details.

answered Jul 01 '19 at 20:07

WinEunuuchs2Unix

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I attempted to run that command from terminal and got an error message stating command not found. @WinEunuuchs2Unix – Vilden Jul 01 '19 at 20:35
@Vilden do not enter the $ prompt that is already displayed. Enter after the prompt: echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jul 01 '19 at 20:39
It seems that one worked how would i know if its in fact running? – Vilden Jul 01 '19 at 20:41
type cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo and if it returns 1 then turbo is off. It it returns 0 then turbo is on. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jul 01 '19 at 20:45
Great it came back with 1 appreciate the help and support apologize if my thread contained misleading information. @WinEunuuchs2Unix – Vilden Jul 01 '19 at 20:46
@Vilden nothing was misleading. Please click the check mark next the solution that answers your question. This lets others know the solution to the question and gives points to the person who answered the question. Plus it gives 2 more points to yourself. Thanks. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jul 01 '19 at 20:49
Done i selected the check mark as well thank you. – Vilden Jul 01 '19 at 21:03

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