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#101
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Correct. During his lightning session this afternoon, Igor specifically warned against locking the processor at 500 or 600 MHz. Doing so will burn out the N900.
Alright, I'm getting a little off-topic now, but how exactly does the N900 clock itself? Will it even run at 600MHz? What does it mean to "lock the processor" at x frequency? I had kind of assumed that the processor works like speedstep stuff, going to higher speeds if there was a more demanding task, i.e. watching a youtube video.

If this is not the case, is there a way to throttle up the processor for short periods of time if better performance is needed? Scarier still, if this is the case, does that mean that I might melt my N900 if I watch 2-3hours of video continuously on Hulu?