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Socket 7 motherboard with functioning turbo switch

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First post, by aleavy

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Hi all, does anybody know of a socket 7 motherboard with a functioning turbo switch? I have a few boards here with turbo headers but none of them actually do anything. I'm sure I have read somewhere that there are a few boards that slowdown with the turbo switch by disabling cache or dropping FSB? I just picked up a nice case with a 3 digit frequency display in awesome condition and want to do a new build. Cheers, Aaron

Reply 1 of 2, by Jorpho

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aleavy wrote:

I have a few boards here with turbo headers but none of them actually do anything.

Which ones? It seems unlikely that they would all be broken.

Reply 2 of 2, by aleavy

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No they are not broken, the manual actually states that the chipset does not support de-turbo but the board still has the turbo switch and turbo led headers on it for some reason. What I am looking for is one that does support de-turbo. I am currently looking at a Gigabyte GA586-TX3 on ebay which has a turbo switch header but the manual just says function reserved so I'm not sure whether it will work or not. It's cheap enough so I might as well give it a go.

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