Guest DMF Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 As I understand it, the stock StrongARM in the SPV is 133Mhz ...... but StrongARM processors go upto 233Mhz, I was just wondering - has anyone tried swapping their surface mount processor for a better one .... yet ?
Guest yoos Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 Funny... as I was driving home from work today I was wondering if it was possible to do this!?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 Even if it were, i'd hate to see its impact on battery life... :)
Guest broeren79 Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 if it prevents me from seeing that annoying busy-circle i don't care about the impact om battery-life Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest Gorskar Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 I suspect it isn't as simple as that - the surrounding circuitry will be clocked at 133mhz, so although the processor would be capable of running faster you wouldn't be able to make it do that.
Guest Crispy Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 I think it would be a waste of time trying so boost something that was meant to be slow. There are the Mitac and "plenty" of faster phones in the works that would the job faster and easier!
Guest DMF Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 think it would be a waste of time trying so boost something that was meant to be slow - They build processors to be slow now !! - Cooo lol.... didnt know that :) As for the bus speed, im sure you're right about the surrounding circuitry, be damn fine if it were possible though dont you think ? I mean, if you can overclock an athlon just by "fixing" the L1 cache, how hard could it be to say - overclock the phone, or make the PCB accept a larger Mhz processor - lest us forget the lessons of the Celeron 333 ..... could crank that sukka up by a MASSIVE amount without risk of overheat just by splicing the circuit pathways.
Guest Gorskar Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 If you recall - its not unheard of for a manufacturer to make two different electrical products, a budget and a premium one, with the only difference being the budget one has had the premium feateures disabled. The reason why? Its cheaper to run only one manufactuing line. I doubt the SPV's processor falls into this category though.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 Gotta love ATI for doing that :) As for the SPV, has anyone actually looked at any pin outs of the 233mhx cpu (to see if they are the same build) or the cost of buying one?
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 Personally I'd just wait for a new faster handset in december. At the moment I don't *NEED* a faster processor, so I'm gonna save what remains of my overdraft. Neadless to say, If a 500Mhz model was out in Jan, I'd wait for that.
Guest glynton Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 How come we see PDAs with 400MHz processors? I know they normally have bigger batteries, but wouldn't this be balanced by the screen size? Glyn
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted September 9, 2003 Report Posted September 9, 2003 How come we see PDAs with 400MHz processors? I know they normally have bigger batteries, but wouldn't this be balanced by the screen size? Glyn Batteries that last 6 hours max?
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