Push button overclocks

Peter G. 7 Nov, 2007 at 6:07pm ET Article published in Tech

MSI’s NX8600GT has a button on the back. PUSH BUTTAN GET MOAR FPS! I think it makes it too easy.

Comments

7 Nov 2007 ~ 7:00pm mas0n Remember the "turbo" button? That **** was RAD.
7 Nov 2007 ~ 10:00pm lemonlime Oh man, what has the world come to!
7 Nov 2007 ~ 10:17pm mmonnin So....is there a point to having the button cause we all know everyone is going to have it pushed in all the time like the turbo button.
8 Nov 2007 ~ 12:37am Leonardo For people who want to overclock but don't want to overclock.

or something like that
8 Nov 2007 ~ 7:53am Zuntar Kids......sheeesh!
8 Nov 2007 ~ 8:33am GHoosdum

mas0n wrote:

Remember the "turbo" button? That **** was RAD.

That's exactly what I was thinking of as soon as I saw the thread title. We had a turbo button on our 286 that OC'd it from 10MHz to 12MHz automagically!
8 Nov 2007 ~ 10:38am CB I think I had a turbo button on my XT. I don't remember it actually doing anything. I don't think it was even attached to anything inside, other than the little LED.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this button. Why would you turn it off? Heat?
8 Nov 2007 ~ 10:53am lemonlime

CB Droege wrote:

I think I had a turbo button on my XT. I don't remember it actually doing anything. I don't think it was even attached to anything inside, other than the little LED.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this button. Why would you turn it off? Heat?

Unless it is somehow linked to fan speed, I don't see why anyone would turn it off

If they really wanted to make it more interesting/hardcore--they should have five settings: Low/Med/High/Artifacting/BSOD
8 Nov 2007 ~ 11:25am primesuspect

lemonlime wrote:

If they really wanted to make it more interesting/hardcore--they should have five settings: Low/Med/High/Artifacting/BSOD
8 Nov 2007 ~ 12:52pm Leonardo

Low/Med/High/Artifacting/BSOD

Translated:

Low: no difference at all, but you'll have the feeling of becoming a real overclocker
Med: might actually make a difference in real game
High: will benefit you your in the game can actually actually take advantage of increased speed; helps you feel less like a fool for spending a fortune on a video card that will be yesterday's yawn in only three or four months
Artifacting: swear about the 'crappy' hardware, crappy Windows, incomplete game coding...anything but the fact that your sorry-a$$ off the shelf Dell/HP/e-Machines/whatever cramped case is so hot inside that it's a wonder the video card is working at all
BSOD: you are f*****
8 Nov 2007 ~ 3:35pm drasnor

CB Droege wrote:

I think I had a turbo button on my XT. I don't remember it actually doing anything. I don't think it was even attached to anything inside, other than the little LED.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this button. Why would you turn it off? Heat?

A lot of software back in the day was designed around the 4MHz AT spec and didn't check to see how fast user events happened since all computers were the same speed. Having Turbo turned on would run your PC at its rated speed while turning it off would drop it to 4MHz (or at least its supposed to). For example, you would turn turbo off if you wanted to play Nibbles, Gorillas, or Scorched Earth at the intended speed and turn turbo on if you were really, really good at Nibbles.

-drasnor
8 Nov 2007 ~ 3:57pm BuddyJ I play Scorched Earth on Turbo cuz I'm a crazy mutha dropin' funky bombs and MIRVs like they're goin out of style. Don't hate or I'll drop a Ton of Dirt on your ass.
8 Nov 2007 ~ 4:12pm Thrax

Buddy Jesus wrote:

I play Scorched Earth on Turbo cuz I'm a crazy mutha dropin' funky bombs and MIRVs like they're goin out of style. Don't hate or I'll drop a Ton of Dirt on your ass.

Win.
8 Nov 2007 ~ 5:34pm CB Scorched earth was the best game ever until we discovered the Smart Guidance/Napalm exploit, then we had to house-rule it's use in the game, and as soon as you have to do that, the game is not as much fun.
9 Nov 2007 ~ 5:02pm Linc For the record... I wiki'd Turbo button and found out that it's purpose was actually to under-clock your system (when off) for older games that relied on processor timing. The default position was "on".
9 Nov 2007 ~ 6:24pm BuddyJ Wiki is cake. The cake is a lie.