Back in the 486 days, it was common to see a “Turbo” button on the front panel of many PCs, which was used to toggle between the CPU’s maximum speed and a slower clock rate that w… ...

In the 80s and 90s, some desktop PCs included a "Turbo" button, but what it actually did was a little unclear. What was it ...

42 thoughts on “ Vintage Computers With A Real Turbo ” John says: November 3, ... The first PC “turbo” buttons were for speeding up 8086/88 XTs from 4.7MHz to around 8MHz.

The "Turbo" button was very common in 286 and 386 PC clones, less common in 486 PCs, and almost extinct by the time Pentium processors became mainstream in the late 1990s.

SilverStone's first '80s throwback PC case started life as an April Fools' joke, but the success of the FLP01 was apparently serious enough to merit a follow-up. The company brought another beige ...