05-12-2004, 05:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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pt on overclocking your pocket pc
pt has started a weekly column over at Engadget consisting of straightforward "how-to" instructions to do cool things with a number of different devices. This week, he's written up a short article on overclocking your Pocket PC.
"Okay, we�re moving the "How-to's" to Tuesday, why? To compete with American Idol of course. This week�s how-to is how to overclock your Pocket PC. Why would you want to do this? speeeeed of course, up to 50% faster in some cases, but you can also (in theory) get better battery life and better performance if you underclock your device when you don�t need all the speed and overclock when you do. There are many different tools and articles that really dive in to the specific results on Pocket PC models; we have links to those at the end of this article. This how-to is to just get you up and running quickly, literally."
As always, pt has a very straightforward, engaging style. If you've been interested in overclocking, you might want to give this article a read. Of course, remember that overclocking your Pocket PC is at your own risk; it may void your warranty and may cause damage if you're not careful.
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05-12-2004, 06:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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during the days of my ppc 2002 i wanted to run a those old console emulator programs. I suppose this overclocking will greatly improve the gameplay on those programs.
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05-12-2004, 08:56 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
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About Battery Life. According to my tests, if you underclock your device and you don�t run any application that loads the CPU less the 20% you will decrease the battery life. If you underclock and while you are running an application with more than 20% you will get more battery life.
Reading an ebook the cpu load is less than 20% so you wont get more battery in this case. Playing WMP you are loading your CPU around 20% and you will get around 1.06% more battery life at 200 MHz than at 400 MHz.
I posted these tests a long time ago here
http://www.pc-counselor.com/reviews/vobench_h2210.htm
I�m glad that PT mentioned it in his wonderful how to 
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05-12-2004, 09:48 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I have a hard enough time keeping my PDA's functional at times. Overclocking is a bad thing to do. It puts unnecessary strain on your device. I will leave this to pt. He may have an unlimted supply of funds, but I don't.
Underclocking is not a bad thing though and I would be a little interested to try that to extend battery life.
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05-12-2004, 09:55 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by gorkon280
I have a hard enough time keeping my PDA's functional at times. Overclocking is a bad thing to do. It puts unnecessary strain on your device. I will leave this to pt. He may have an unlimted supply of funds, but I don't.
Underclocking is not a bad thing though and I would be a little interested to try that to extend battery life.
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I have been using OC in two devices sinde more than a year ago and never had any problem with any of those devices. OC is safe.
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05-16-2004, 03:32 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by ctitanic
I have been using OC in two devices sinde more than a year ago and never had any problem with any of those devices. OC is safe.
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Agreed, I've been overclocking for a while as well. No problems at all, apart from a hard reset at the beginning when I was testing and set an invalid speed combination.
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