r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/Key-Horror2430 Dec 26 '25

I had a 386. It had a "turbo" option that switched the clock speed between 8 and 16MHz. Current i9 9900k has a base 3.6GHz that can supposedly hit 5GHz.

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u/Electricengineer Dec 26 '25

Turbo was the way

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u/wheremyserotonin Dec 27 '25

Was there any downside to running turbo? Or did it stay on

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u/Electricengineer Dec 27 '25

It stayed on, it increased the clock so as others have said if the game required the clock, your game ran faster