Only when you hit the turbo boost!
Which apparently just sped up your games and why my SF2 record was like 1-99999 against the computer.
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lettruthout@lemmy.world 5 months ago
…and loud? Some old machines have noisy jet engines fans inside
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
The turbo button slows your computer down!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It spends it up, but old games would then run faster.
So like, a 50% gain in performance just made the AI move 50% faster.
I always hit “turbo” when playing a game because I thought it would just increase framerate or something.
I dunno, I just found out a while ago on Lemmy what it really did, so maybe I still don’t understand it right.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Turbo being activated makes your computer slower. Many games relied on clock speed for timing and were unplayable on newer computers because they ran way too fast. The turbo button slowed them down so you could actually play them.
young_broccoli@fedia.io 5 months ago
The "turbo" button switches the cpu speed from its native speed to half of it but it wont boost speeds beyond what it was originally intended.
Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeah its pretty noisy atleast compared to anything modern~
TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You could probably upgrade the fans.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
A lot of cases from back then only took 80mm fans. To move more air, they had to spin faster and produce more noise. The loud fans were the upgrade 🙈
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Noctua to the rescue! (And maybe a fan speed controller.)
towerful@programming.dev 5 months ago
I remember a little knob on the back of a pc, taking up a PCIe slot, connected to a fan controller
TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 months ago
True, but I think you can get some pretty decent high airflow 80mm fans these days.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Good point 🙂