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human
ELI5:So what did the TURBO button on my 486 actually do and did it make it faster???

So what did the TURBO button on my 486 or 386 actually do and did it make it faster?
gpt
It didn't make it faster.  It made it *slower*.

Many older games relied upon the CPU clock to provide a timing signal.  Newer processors with faster clocks caused those games to run in a kind of "fast-forward", making them unplayable.  The turbo button allowed you to reduce the clock rate so that those games would run correctly.

Newer (at the time) games began to be written to not rely directly on an the CPU clock signal for their timing, which eventually made the turbo button obsolete.