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Originally Posted by automagic68 View Post
How come the N900's processor can be overclocked at such a high percentage increase of the base frequency? Yet the N9 can't even be OC'd by +40%?
Because there's limits on the amount of heat and power leakage and the cpu is built on a smaller process that will cause the chip to approach these limits more quickly. It also starts closer to these limits in some ways (the default voltage is about the same but the leakage is more and higher clockspeed should both cause the default temperature to be higher).
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