Thread: Overclock the N900?
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2010-04-03 , 15:45
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Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
Heh. The risk isn't in flashing the kernel, it's in the nearly 50% overclock. You're going to adversely affect your CPU lifetime doing that. Period.

Whether the amount it is decreased is relevant is another issue, but there's no getting around the fact that the increased temperature will accelerate damage due to electromigration, and there are probably other factors in new CPUs i'm not even aware of.

Don't kid yourself this is 100% harmless.
Your efforts with MAME put you in the god-like category for me, but the 3430 is clocked as standard at 800 mhz in some devices and people have been using the Droid for months at this speed and higher. Temps spike once breaching 1ghz and this appears to be around where the ceiling of the 3430 is.

Again, this assumes the 3430 in the N900 is the same as the Archos 500 MP and Sammy / Motorola phones. A key for the Droid though is that SetCPU allows dynamic profiling. Most scale their Droid from 250mhz min and 800mhz max.

Battery impact is nominal on the Droid at 800mhz, but I appreciate the N900's OS will not be the same. The evil pulse audio appears to be a worse resource hog than Android's java layer
Last edited by Rushmore; 2010-04-03 at 15:51.