Thread: Overclock the N900?
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geneven is offline geneven
2010-04-19 , 00:32
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Originally Posted by NotTheMessiah View Post
well without reading 306 pages of posts! (who can honestly blame me!) I'd say yeah it must be possible, however, probably a rather bad idea for two main reasons, 1. severly reduced battery life and 2. over heating. I'm sure many of you are aware of the BGA problems nvidia chips have had in laptops in recent years. I cant be 100% sure on this but i'd be surprised if i was wrong but I would assume the cpu in the n900 is connected using a BGA, these tend to fail with excessive heat because the solder fatigues and cracks. So given that i think overclocking would ultimately result it hardware failure. Just my two cents worth.

The value of your post is cut by half (to one cent) because you didn't grasp that lots of people started happily overclocking as a result of this thread. It's absolutely correct that overclocking will ultimately result in hardware failure. That was discussed a lot. The question is, when is ultimately? How long do people plan to keep using their phones, anyway?

Many people reached the conclusion that they were going to use their phones for maybe a few years and that better, faster operation was easily worth risking hardware failure if the hardware was likely to last a few years. We concluded that it was and decided to go on.