Overclocking the Blade

[Guest KillerMackem]

Does overclocking have a significant benefit on the general speed of the phone and does it affect the battery much?

[Guest ColdEmbrace]

Does overclocking have a significant benefit on the general speed of the phone and does it affect the battery much?

I guess significance of O/C would depend on how far you can make your blade O/C without being unstable. And of course it would affect the battery, but if the CPU govenor is set to OnDemand I doubt it would make too much difference unless you plan on doing a lot of processor intensive tasks.

[Guest chinnmann]

Does overclocking have a significant benefit on the general speed of the phone and does it affect the battery much?

iv over clocked my blade to 691MHz which id say is the most you would want to safely overclock to, and yes it does have a fairly large effect on the performance, you'd be surprised how much an extra 90MHz or so will make and i personally haven't found any difference in battery life, if there has been any then its only marginal. hope this helps ;)

Edited June 11, 2011 by chinnmann

[Guest swisstourist]

mine is set on 729, smartass!!!.(not you smart ass, ehehe)

no problems so far

Edited June 12, 2011 by swisstourist

[Guest targetbsp]

Mine managed over 4 hours of Grand Prix Story last night whilst overclocked to 710. And it has a standby time of 8 days if not used. That's good enough battery for me whilst OC'd. ;)

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

Hi, first, as with all Silicon chips the maximum speed varies from wafer to wafer, CPU to CPU, even if they are identical and were sitting side by side on the original wafer, the max speeds will be different. My Blade OC's to a stable 768MHz, whereas my girlfriends Blade can be unstable after 672MHz, just the luck of the draw.

Second regarding battery consumption. I have had long and insightful discussions with the developer of the free app "No-frills CPU Control"

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as to whether or not battery consumption is increased, and the unanimous conclusion was yes, but in the end you end up using less power. Why? Simply because the CPU is only one component in the computing chain, the less time you can have the CPU number crunching the better. Sure it may use more power, but if it gets the task completed quicker, is it actually using more power? The key is to use the "Ondemand" governor. This way the system can speed up and slow down the CPU depending on load, this is very effective in a Linux based OS.

Finally, you do notice a performance boost, again this will depend on your maximum speed. But hell, the Blade is a genuine bargain in stock form, any increase in performance is simply the cherry on a very nice cake.

Anil.

PS. Forgive me if I sound like a bragger, but I recently did the new icon and Marketplace graphics for No-frills CPU Control. This is my first Android project that has gone live, and I'm working on 4 - 5 more apps at the moment. Only got my phone in March, amazing how fast things move nowadays.