Thread: some questions from a potential buyer: multi-boot, MeeGo, USB host, overclocking
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ivyking is offline ivyking
2010-11-01 , 20:40
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#19
Originally Posted by retsaw View Post
That's not quite true, none of the overclocking profiles go above the default voltage for 600Mhz when clocked up to 1GHz, it is only at frequencies higher than that it will go above standard operating voltages (unless you create a custom OC profile that does otherwise). So with most N900s you will be able to get some level of overclocking without increasing the voltage. The OC profiles actually focus on decreasing the voltages for normal operation to increase the battery life.
yes.. thats right , you may want to increase voltage above stock limit only when modifying / creating a custom profile so that it can operate at a frequency , that was originally unstable , example , you install power kernel , and go with ideal profile , you try to increase maximum frequency to 1150 MHz , your n900 reboots after a couple of minutes, that means it's unstable , you can edit the ideal profile and increase voltage in steps and try again and again till you find a stable configuration, you can find more info on this in the wiki page on power kernel .
please note that increasing voltage above stock is NOT recommended at all , this can cause severe damage or even fry you processor on the spot (depending on how many voltage steps you add) !!