Thread: Overclock the N900?
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2010-03-21 , 11:36
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#148
Originally Posted by jakiman View Post
When it shoots to 100% @ 600Mhz which it does frequently during certain operations, it's hitting a bottleneck.
Instead, if the cpu was capable of 800Mhz for its ceiling.
Then maybe it might only neded 80% at 800Mhz for that "instant".
My fear is that CPU throttling itself at this "instant" is the problem; when more CPU is suddenly needed, it has already stalled, and it's too late to "send the cavalry". Sure, you may now get through the stall a bit faster, but the illusion of smoothness was already lost.

At least that's what I gather from the desktop PC overclock/cpu throttling experiments I've made. But who knows, N900 is a bit different beast, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see until someone actually tries it.