Hi I'm new and will search older threads, but just in case I don't find what I need I'll ask everyone I haven't used Linux in along time and last distro was Slackware and now its almost like starting over again.
I want to turn on turbo boost from Linux because bios menus don't have a setting to modify that setting. I've read some stuff on enabling it, but didn't have files or folders with CPU frequencies?
Thank you in advance.
JGarcia
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Hi jgarcia, welcome to the community 
Clockspeed is automatically changed depending on workload and that, as far as I know, includes turbo boost. There are presets for the clockspeed behaviour though:
[ conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance, schedutil ]
I believe that MS-Windows has something comparable (performance, mixed, powersave).
There is a lot info about it and I think the best starting point is the highly regarded arch linux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling
The debian wiki gives a little bit of info regarding debian based distro's (like Ubuntu-MATE)
https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling
And, ofcourse, the more detailed ins and outs on the linux kernel admin guide:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html
There are no real files or folders with CPU frequencies but there are kernel variables that are exported in virtual files which reside in the /proc and /sys filesystems.
You probably are looking for /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
Example to check if boost is enabled:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
results on my machine in "1" which means "enabled"
EDIT:
This chapter might be the exact info that you are looking for:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html#the-boost-file-in-sysfs
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This CPU does not even have Turbo Boost, according to https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/91832/intel-celeron-processor-n3060-2m-cache-up-to-2-48-ghz.html (search for turbo boost on that page)
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