turbo button installation

[microlost]

I am looking for a good tutorial on installing a turbo button into my old pc. Please, don't tell me about how they are pointless in the modern age. The computer is an old Dell dimension e510 with an intel pentium 4. Any method of reducing the speed is fine with me, as long as it will work. My mobo is an intel connely (or as I prefer to say it, canoli)

 

[kanewolf]

Back in the "old" days, the "turbo" button physically changed the crystal that controlled the clock. That is all done with software any more. You might be able to save two profiles in a software clock control software package. One for "quite" and one for "normal"

 

[microlost]

@kanewolf: I am aware of that solution, however there is also the cool factor of of having a functioning button or switch that says turbo on your pc. I just updated the question to include my mobo information, do you know if it has any sort of connector that I could hook the button up to?

 

[CountMike]

There's no such thing in it. Some newer MBs have a button for performance enhancing or Turbo mode.

 

[microlost]

@CountMike: What about a way to disable the l2 cache?

 

[CountMike]

L2 cache is on the processor, L3 may be on the MB. Either way you have to do it thru BIOS and that's not gonna do what you want.
If you want a visual effect, you can get a Turbo button and frequency display from an old 386/486 computer. It has own settings to display any two numerals you can make out of 8 segment LEDs. It won't do nothing but change display when you push that button.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

 

[The Paladin]

looked at e510 motherboard there is no "turbo" pinout to use for the purpose your asking (I recall those on P4 early on, I use to just jump the 2 pins and always run it at blazing 12mhz instead of 8mhz , chuckles... ah the old days... where you could use a welding iron to repair them.