I think i might have overclocked my SPV try it too!

[Guest Eran]

i went over and downloaded Jimmysoftware Overclock (www.jimmysoftware.com) intended for the iPAQ.

i opened it via all explorer and select 192mhz in the window the came up pressed apply...

I have a feeling it worked because now nes emu and doom work almost flawlessly

check it out, who knows i might be right

Eran

[Guest toadvox]

If that is the case then wicked.... I think I'll be waiting for one of the experts on the forum to try it first and give us the low down!! Dont really wanna mess up another SPV. I'm on my 3rd already! I wonder if there's a way to get the phone to tell you what speed the processor is working at to confirm if it did actually overclock it??

[Guest DJHope]

erm...im amazed the program runs, but it dosnt seem to increase speed wishful thinking?

[Guest madu]

it is not really supposed to run at 192MHz, now is it??

[Guest DJHope]

Yep ive seen TI OMAP processors the same as ours running at 200mhz, it seems microsoft just want operators to run it at 132mhz!

DJ Hope

[Guest Pidder]

We should have a benchmark to check before and after.

[Guest DJHope]

nah im pretty sure it didnt do anything, everything ive tried before and after is identical.

DJ Hope

[Guest kevlar]

I just used this program to clock my processor to 250mhz!. I have fitted a thermaltake sk6 with 80mm fan to the back of the phone to keep the cpu cool. I just downloaded 3dmark2003 and run it, got a score of 8000!. Oh yeah, and when I were a lad I used to work 25 hours a day, come home and our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.

Beat that :)

Kevlar

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

My main machine scored a piddly 149 3dm2k3 marks :)

[Guest castlebrae]

But seriously, I think it might be worth a decent benchmark.

[Guest RCAM]

The reason we can not overclock and no difference is made is because there is no extra power to overclock with. Even if you were able to overclock the processer it would not be worth it, the battery life is already depleted fast, and now you want to take away more?

Edited December 8, 2008 by RCAM

[Guest ClintEastman]

kevlar, right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah

[Guest ClintEastman]

What we need is a tsr to overclock with cpu idle throttling.

[Guest crimminsky]

thats nuthin..wen i were a lad, we ad to go to school wiv carboard boxes for shoes an wen we cum 'ome, we ad to work in t'fields till our hands bled and we died of over exhaustion, then me mam and pap would drag us round t'streets and jump on us and then bury us in the compost heap and then dance on us! :)

[Guest kevlar]

RIGHT THEN!!!!!!!!!! :)

Kevlar

[Guest amo]

I guess the only way to benchmark the overclocked cpu would be regarding battery duration. This would involve 2 spv's. Deplete both batterys. Make sure the fone cant be turned on (making sure both batterys are completely dead). Then charge both for 2 hours. Then see if one runs out before the other. Theoretically the overclocked should deplete quicker. Make sure both spv's are left untouched durinbg the time to make sure the load on the battery was even.

[Guest ClintEastman]

Aye, and you try telling young people of today that. And they won't believe you!

[Guest madu]

hey! what's all that cr*p? we are talking about overclocking, right? i think the joke with battery life is a bit outdated and was in the original overclocking spv topic. how about doing something more real then pouring s**t on the spv?? i truely believe (from what i've heard) that it can be done. if not this app, then something else will come up soon. being as sceptical as some of you will take us nowhere. nothing personal.

[Guest tom]

Overclocking means that you have to run the chip at a faster speed. This means that the chip is using more energy, energy that is dissipated as thermal energy. This means that you're in danger of literall "frying" your chip if you try and make it run really, really fast.

I can't really see much room for an extra heat sink in the phone, and this *woudl* deplete battery life further - where else is the energy going to come from?

[Guest madu]

Well, this is very obvious that it heats faster and consumes higher energy levels to those who have at least seen their PC inside. Especially if taken out the CPU, played with jumpers and bought a new fan+heatsink. :)

Also as it is in our case - there won't be much of a temperature increase (and keeping your hands worm is not funny btw). Yes, it will consume more energy, but it would result in processes running faster consuming more energy but less time to complete, thus partially compensating for higher consumption. But hopefully with the new update and improved process management this coul;d be a possibility. And FFS, would you not like a faster SPV even if it will limit battery life?

[Guest jrdwthomas]

I certainly would like a faster spv. I charge mine every night anyway so a lower battery life wouldn't make much difference to me. At the end of the day i''m willing to sacrifice a smaller life for a faster phone!!

[Guest paulend]

made me laugh :) , but its dead! :shock:

[Guest PaulW]

I've tried the program, yeah ok I noticed a 'slight' improvement in some applications, yet others were no different, or were not as quick as before. IMO I wouldn't advise running the file.

As far as the speed setting is concerened, I think that in reality you have to half the displayed value to get an estimate of how quick the SPV can be overclocked. I only noticed differences when set to 262MHz, but as I said, it was only 'slight'.

I reset the IPSM before doing the test, and then reset it again afterwards to compare results, I also left the phone with the supposed 'Overclock' running with the radio off next to a normal SPV in the same state, and noticed the battery didnt last as long.

All in all, I'd wait for a proper utility to do this, the results aren't great, sometimes not even noticable.

[Guest Tumpin]

In my day....

:)

[Guest DJHope]

After some research, this topic is now almost funny theirs no way in hell that the asm required for overclocking on the IPAQ Processor (intel xscale) is the same as our ARM920T...

I rekon that offically kills this topic,

DJ Hope