Is it bad to overclock your PPC?

[Bloop]

Are their any draw backs when over clocking a PPC?
Also how does an over clocking program work, what does it do to make your processor faster?

[pocketpcdude1024]

I've never overclocked my Pocket PC, but I have heard that it may cause you to hard reset your handhled because of lockups and such. Also, when the processor goes into overload, it heats up so your Pocket PC gets warm. Third, it chews through battery life faster than if it were normally clocked. 8)

[Rirath]

Right on all 3 counts, and it'll probably shorten the life of the PPC. But, the issue is, does any of it really matter? If you can deal with hard resets due to bad settings, and no one knows if it's going to shorten the life by a day or a second. So, for folks like me, I'm much happier running my Axim at 497mhz and getting a sweet speed boost.

As for how, programs like HackMaster change values L, M, N. They control things like BUS speed, memory speed, LCD, etc.

The short answer is: Yes, do it at your own risk like any other form of overclocking.

[seanturner]

If you're at all familiar with desktop overclocking, HackMaster changes the clock multipliers of the memory, system, and processor clocks.

You can damange your PPC, but, I haven't heard of anyone actually breaking theirs. You can, however, cause a reset fairly easily by pushing your PPC too far. It should be okay up to around 490MHz, but, anything higher than that has been known to cause a hard reset. Also, if you do overclock, go easy on the memory multiplier as changing that is what is most likely to cause a hard reset.

[PetiteFlower]

However it will void your warantee, correct?

[seanturner]

Well, I haven't heard of any overclocking that doesn't void your warenty. But, I'm not sure if there are provisions in the warnety for it at the moment because I'm not sure that any manufacurers thought it would be a problem (especially on devices targeted at corporate executives)

My guess is yes, but, on the other hand, it is hard for them to tell that a device has been overclocked.

[Rirath]

Just hard reset and they'd never know... or at least, I'd be willing to guess. Now, when the Vcore tweaks come out... you'll run a much greater risk of frying something if you mess with em.

[seanturner]

But, considering that I do notice a difference in heat dicipation when I overclock, I suspect that it does lower the life of the PPC.

(I wonder if the CompUSA TAC plan has antying to say about overclocking... Gosh I wish I had bought one of those though...)

[sfjlittel]

i think that there are two things you can consider.

1. the useful life of your pocketpc
2. the hardware life of your pocketpc

When you overclock your pocketpc it will decrease the lifetime, you can say that it "lives" for about 10 years, and by overclocking it decreases to 5. How many years are you going to have the pocketpc you have now?
When you overclock your pocketpc you can do things like watch movies at a higher framerate. But the question is what do you want to do with it? Is it to slow to do something you want to do? If it isn't I don't see the point.