Turbo Button

Turbo10

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Okay i have a crazy idea it might have been done already but using the turbo button idea from the MSI GT725 laptop and putting it in a desktop would be awesome. But how about making it even more crazy by having a big red lit up button on your pc saying 'DO NOT PRESS' or something then when you press it all the fans rev to full speed the lights go red or something like that overclocking it to the max.

That would be such an insane ides anyone agree? :D
 
i think an electric fencer hooked up to said button would work much better on all the twats that push said button
 
I remember when computers had turbo buttons that were suppose to like enable or disable the math co processor or some crap. It never made a difference. I also remember when creative made optical drives and put turbo buttons on them...

marketing gimmic, and it died.
 
I remember when computers had turbo buttons that were suppose to like enable or disable the math co processor or some crap. It never made a difference. I also remember when creative made optical drives and put turbo buttons on them...

marketing gimmic, and it died.

You are correct and I forget what they did too! :eek:
 
... I also remember when creative made optical drives and put turbo buttons on them...

marketing gimmic, and it died.

Thank goodness! :)

Now we just have to deal with gimmicks like Dynamic Contrast...


You are correct and I forget what they did too! :eek:

Actually on most older computers with the "Turbo" button, it actually allowed the computer to run at full speed when on. When off, the CPU was handicapped in some way to make it more compatible with older software that might take issue with the new-fangled improvements like L2 cache or higher clock speeds. ;)
 
At my very first IT job we actually had some of those creative optical drives with the turbo button on them. We had one back in our shop and would always joke around. Man, this office install is taking too long, bring me the turbo drive!
 
At my very first IT job we actually had some of those creative optical drives with the turbo button on them. We had one back in our shop and would always joke around. Man, this office install is taking too long, bring me the turbo drive!

Ha ha! What would that turbo mode do exactly? Increase the read speed slightly? I vaguely remember those.
 
Ha ha! What would that turbo mode do exactly? Increase the read speed slightly? I vaguely remember those.

It didn't do anything. Optical drives had no standards being set by the FCC for a long time. Remember the drives that came that said 100x speed? Yeah that was because there were no regulations on them, but that has change hence no longer do you see the 100x optical drive nor do you see the ones with turbo buttons.
 
At my very first IT job we actually had some of those creative optical drives with the turbo button on them. We had one back in our shop and would always joke around. Man, this office install is taking too long, bring me the turbo drive!


haha that's great. I remember on my second PC we had a turbo button. My brother told me to never touch it, so I didn't. Now I know what it did:D
 
It didn't do anything. Optical drives had no standards being set by the FCC for a long time. Remember the drives that came that said 100x speed? Yeah that was because there were no regulations on them, but that has change hence no longer do you see the 100x optical drive nor do you see the ones with turbo buttons.

That figures.

Heh, yeah... With those drives, I remember thinking 100x what? 4KB/s? That was quite some time ago.
 
There is a computer at school that has a turbo button. Well the computer doesn't get used, as it's like 10 years old, but what the turbo button does is take it from 33Hz to 66Hz, OVERCLOCKING TO THE EXTREMES!!!

But I have been doing something like this with my fans. I got some 80mm fans from old PSU's and old computers and took the ends off as well as the ground wire. I also took some switches from the PSU's and so I have (not to my computer, just trying it out) hooked up some fans to the switches and turn it on and off to make it go on and off. I am modding my case with this as well.
 
There is a computer at school that has a turbo button. Well the computer doesn't get used, as it's like 10 years old, but what the turbo button does is take it from 33Hz to 66Hz, OVERCLOCKING TO THE EXTREMES!!!

Take a look at what I mentioned earlier. The computer you are referring to is designed to run at 66MHz natively (pretty sure it's MHz not Hz). Pushing in the Turbo button actually allows it to. Without the Turbo button engaged the CPU is clocked back and its cache is probably disabled as well.


Noticed this today on Tom's Hardware.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/msi-notebook-gaming-gx733-amd,news-30821.html

Has a turbo button which overclocks the laptop. Don't know by how much though and it only does it when it's plugged in.

Yeah, they did this several years ago, too. It's probably just a 5-10% overclock. Nothing huge. I'm not sure if MSI has released any further info on this one yet.
 
Thats what i mentioned in the first place :D that laptop it overclocks the cpu from 2.3GHz to 2.9Ghz but only when it plugged into the mains.
 
the turbo button explained

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