Turbo Button..

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:34 pm

Hey, My freind has 2 Computers with "The Turbo" Button, what does it exactly do?

It didnt make his PC any faster.

Post by **gannon** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:10 pm

It makes you feel special

Really...that's about it...

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:31 pm

Yeah, it's just there. Just like the turbo button on some third-party N64 controllers.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:41 pm

well if it was actually hooked up and working, what it does is severly underclock the processor. like if you had a 66mhz machine turning the turbo off might make it run at 33mhz or something. the explanation i was given is that some old old games were so "awesome" at the time, that the programmers just let their speed be limited by the processing power of the system. so they ran incredibly fast on newer systems, hence the turbo button.

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:30 pm

That was the intended usage, I wired mine to work as an overclock button. I have an old Pentium 1 era board with an AMD K6 300, it uses jumpers to set the clock speed. Changing one jumper takes it from 300MHz(66Mhz FSB) to 382Mhz(85MHz FSB), I wired the switch to that jumper and now I have a real turbo button. For fun i tried to switch to turbo mode with the computer on, the system crashed rather violently, I knew it would happen I just wanted to try it.

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:20 am

The Turbo button only does anything on ancient computers (286, 286 etc)
I have a 286 that can either run at the standard 4.77MHz or run at 16MHz. Why? Most programmers, when writing games for the older 8088, hardcoded the game timing. So, if you played those games at 16mhz they would be too fast. So with a "slowdown" turbo switch, you could run that old software.

No one in the marketing departments wanted to call the button "Slowdown" so they called it a "Turbo" button. Kind of a oxymoron really.

Unidentified Assilant · Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:51 am

Now I know what that Turbo button did on my old PC, nothing at all lol, it was a Pentium II

HomicidalBarber · Post by **HomicidalBarber** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:02 pm

The Turbo Button: When pushed causes mass world wide nuclear holocaust...I think.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:26 pm

HomicidalBarber wrote:The Turbo Button: When pushed causes mass world wide nuclear holocaust...I think.

oooooooooo crap ..........well run for your bomb shelters

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:09 pm

Hmm I could certainly use a turbo button. When I play Oregon Trail on my compy it's so overspeed that the only reason it's playable is because it's not real time. Just from typing one selection to the next. The traveling action is so fast that you only get one frame to comprehent that there's "insufficient grass for oxen" or "Joel has died". And the music comes from that strange internal speaker on computers that you can't turn down. Well, it's supposed to be music; on my compy it's high-speed chittering.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:14 pm

NES_fanatic wrote:Hmm I could certainly use a turbo button. When I play Oregon Trail on my compy it's so overspeed that the only reason it's playable is because it's not real time. Just from typing one selection to the next. The traveling action is so fast that you only get one frame to comprehent that there's "insufficient grass for oxen" or "Joel has died". And the music comes from that strange internal speaker on computers that you can't turn down. Well, it's supposed to be music; on my compy it's high-speed chittering.

Try Mo'Slo.