A really
gimmicey feature found on dodgy PC cases. A series of
seven segment leds that allegedly displays the machine's
clock-speed, but actually display whatever they've been
jumpered to
1. Often has a passthrough for the
turbo switch to further the illusion that it's showing the actual clock speed. It will even count up and down like a
pinball machine, even though an actual clock speed changes in under a
microsecond.
But hey, it's appearances that matter, right?
1 - With creative jumpering and track breaking, you can make it say anything you like. Useful for identifying identical servers...