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

There was a point in time, excruciatingly brief, in which desktop computers often had a large “TURBO” button on their front panel. Some even featured an LED display that would indicate the ...

When I got my first PC – a 286/12- in 1989, I often ran it at 8 MHz with the turbo button OFF because I was worried that running it on Turbo would burn it out! I was 13… had no idea.

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.

Maingear has introduced their new TURBO liquid cooled desktop PC system which is now available to order priced from $1,499. The TURBO PC system features a newly designed version of Maingear’s ...