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I thought the turbo button slowed things down?

• magicalhippo 7y ago
  Mine most gave a very noticeable speed boost, which was expected given it bumped the clock from 8 MHz to 12 MHz. Fun to toggle during games.
• dogma1138 7y ago
  It depends on the main board jumper if the clockrate was set to high on open then it slowed it down if not then it increased the speed when the turbo switch was enabled (closed). It basically gave you anywhere from 50% to 100% increase in CPU speed at the time. That said for most people it would probably have done nothing since the turbo button was available on cases till the mid 90’s where it did nothing and often wasn’t even connected. I had one on my MMX pentium PC but it did absolutely squat.
• masklinn 7y ago
  Depended on the implementation. Some turbo buttons were wired to run at low clock when pressed, others to run at "real" clock when pressed. That's why they often had some sort of LED or display (2x7 segments).