Comment on Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!!
young_broccoli@fedia.io 2 months agoThe "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.
Comment on Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!!
young_broccoli@fedia.io 2 months agoThe "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.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
howtogeek.com/…/why-did-the-turbo-button-slow-dow…
That’s how it was supposed to work.
But apparently you could wire it either way, so some people made turbo actually mean “turbo” instead of “slow”.
Which I think was going on with mine since it got louder, but it’s been literally decades
young_broccoli@fedia.io 2 months ago
You can wire it that way, I do, but it doesnt mean you are making the cpu go faster than what the label says. You are still switching between normal speed and half speed, it just feels better.