What the heck is turbo mode???

[Nuthouse]

I see the option for "Turbo" mode in my Bios... What the heck is this for? I know that older computers used to have a turbo button on the outside of the computer. I don't know why they even made these things, because everyone used to run their computer always on turbo mode.

I'll summarize my questions:

1)What does the Turbo option in my Bios do?
2)Why the heck don't they just make turbo mode into the normal mode?

Specs:
a7M266 Bios version 1005
and things that blink and beep.

THis is from Spinal Tap. I feel like I am Marty, and ASUS is Nigel.

NIGEL: ...the numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the board.

MARTY: Ahh...oh, I see....

NIGEL: Eleven...eleven...eleven....

MARTY: ...and most of these amps go up to ten....

NIGEL: Exactly.

MARTY: Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?

NIGEL: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most...most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here...all the way up...all the way up....

MARTY: Yeah....

NIGEL: ...all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar...where can you go from there? Where?

MARTY: I don't know....

NIGEL: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra...push over the cliff...you know what we do?

MARTY: Put it up to eleven.

NIGEL: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

MARTY: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top... number...and make that a little louder?

NIGEL: ...these go to eleven.

 

[jbell]

well first exactly what board do you have? but (auto_ turbo) is a great setting - the ramperformance will see a great increase!

 

[Nuthouse]

Specs:
a7M266 Bios version 1005
and things that blink and beep.

I am running an ASUS A7M266, more comlete specs here.

 

[Mhypertext]

CAS latency
Auto(normal)
auto(tubo)

set it to auto(turbo) if you wish
the real question is if your stick of ram can handle it
you will no real quickly up startup (blue screen of death or unstable) if this happens simply return it to old setting

What it does is make the ram reload quicker which inturn makes the ram perform faster (but not all ram likes the turbo setting)

 

[Yodums]

Well, I have that board, and there's only one turbo command that I know, and that is very useful. Basically as you mentioned, it puts more power through your chip (Even a slight more overclock). Turn it on, run a benchmark at Normal, then at Turbo, you'll notice it to be faster by alot.

Yodums