i want a turbo button on my computer

[ElFenix]

be nice to switch it easily from underclocked and quiet to overclocked and beastly.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i remember the old computers at school had buttons marked turbo........they were win 98 at the most, probably win 95 era. turbo never seemed to do anything though

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Is this a parody ?

 

[shilala]

Try Trixx.
There's a bunch of Asus utilities that do just that.
What board are you running?

 

[Zim Hosein]

8 to 12MHz via a Turbo Button, oh the memories!

 

[PHiuR]

I think they actually have this.
don't know if it works or not.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
i remember the old computers at school had buttons marked turbo........they were win 98 at the most, probably win 95 era. turbo never seemed to do anything though

it was supposed to go from a normal 8MHz up to whatever your DX or DX-2 could run at, iirc (well, it worked with SX processors too, unlike today's celerons which don't clock throttle).

i'm not sure it did anything either.

remember the old LED displays that would give the MHz of the processor on them? always fun to set that to 666. :laugh:

 

[FoBoT]

old school

the worst part about those cases was jumpering the LED correctly for your cpu
seems pretty crazy now

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: shilala
Try Trixx.
There's a bunch of Asus utilities that do just that.
What board are you running?

software isn't manly.

 

[eelw]

My 286 10MHz dropped to 6MHz with the turbo off.

 

[Kelemvor]

My 486 SX25 had a turbo button. I don't think I ever turned it off. Not sure why anyone would unless an old DOS game ran too fast in Turbo mode. heh.

 

[DaTT]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: shilala
Try Trixx.
There's a bunch of Asus utilities that do just that.
What board are you running?

software isn't manly.

lol :thumbsup:

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
8 to 12MHz via a Turbo Button, oh the memories!

OMG TEH RAW POWUR AT JOOR FINGARTEPS!!! :Q

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: shilala
Try Trixx.
There's a bunch of Asus utilities that do just that.
What board are you running?

software isn't manly.

Good point.
How's about a hurst shifter tied back to the button on your desktop?
Fair compromise?

 

[glugglug]

I used to have my K6-166 set so the turbo switch went between 208 (stable overclock) and 250 (max overclock).
225 was stable too, but 208 was faster because of bus speed (and L2 cache access thru the bus).

 

[scottish144]

I have an old Win 3.1 before-pentium acient PoS that had a turbo button. Didn't make much difference in performance though. Granted, I was only 8 years old at the time, and my memory of it is vague.

 

[DaWhim]

lol, I used to have one and worked

 

[Auryg]

Our teachers at school always used to scold us for hitting the turbo button

 

[sash1]

I have a button like that, it's "F2" it enters the BIOS

 

[FrozenCanadian]

It would be nice to have a Turbo button on the case that turned on/off AMD's Cool'n'Quiet or whatever Intels is.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
old school

the worst part about those cases was jumpering the LED correctly for your cpu
seems pretty crazy now

Ah, but the best part was that you could wire those LED displays to say things like 266MHZ when you were running a 486.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: FoBoT
old school

the worst part about those cases was jumpering the LED correctly for your cpu
seems pretty crazy now

Ah, but the best part was that you could wire those LED displays to say things like 266MHZ when you were running a 486.

What did you have to do? I've got a case like that, only thing I noticed was the fact there are a bunch of jumpers at the back...

 

[suse920]

that would be sick... with sound effect of course.


hmmm pr0n needs downloading. i think you know what that mean!!!!
*push*
WWWWOOOOOMMMM VRRRAAAAAWWWMMMMMMM

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: goku

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: FoBoT
old school

the worst part about those cases was jumpering the LED correctly for your cpu
seems pretty crazy now

Ah, but the best part was that you could wire those LED displays to say things like 266MHZ when you were running a 486.

What did you have to do? I've got a case like that, only thing I noticed was the fact there are a bunch of jumpers at the back...

I couldn't tell you the jumper configuration now even if you have the exact same case I had, which I doubt. Disconnect it so that the jumper settings don't actually change anything on your motherboard/cpu and then play around with the settings. The LED (at least on the old cases) is not tied to the actual cpu speed, it's just a reading from the jumper settings.