I have a DH67CL / i5-2500K PC. It has a 650W Gold power supply and no graphics card, so power is never an issue. It has Noctua CPU cooling.
I also have a DH67BL / i5-2405S PC. It has a 650W Bronze power supply and no graphics card, so power is never an issue. It has Noctua CPU cooling. I bought the i5-2405S expecting to install it in a media center, but those plans changed, so I ended up with a spare CPU. I only use this PC as a lab system, e.g. running anti-virus scans on external disks.
Now I wish I had bought a 95W CPU for the DH67BL because it would not be constrained by wattage. Looking at the DH67BL Performance Tuning Guide, it appears that I might be able to convert the i5-2405S into a 95W one.
In BIOS, I have the following default parameters:
i5-2405S i5-2500K
Host Clock Frequency 100 100
Maximum Non-Turbo Ratio 25 33
Intel Turbo Boost Technology enable enable
Burst Mode Power Limit 81 118
Sustained Mode Time 1 1
Sustained Mode Power Limit 65 95
IGD Current Limit 32 32
4-Core Ratio Limit 26 34
3-Core Ratio Limit 28 35
2-Core Ratio Limit 32 36
1-Core Ratio Limit 33 37
Can I convert the i5-2405S into a 95W one simply by changing Burst Mode Power Limit to 118, Sustained Mode Power Limit to 95, and the four Core Ratio Limits to 34-35-36-37?
Can I change the initial clock speed simply by changing Host Clock Frequency to something higher than 2.5, perhaps 3.0?
P.S. Given that Intel has discontinued support for the Turbo Boost Technology Monitor 2.6, is there any place I can still find it?