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Darth_Sith

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« on: July 08, 2006, 11:44:36 am »
I made a little program in java, compileand run with blackdown and jikes.
I observe that there is a good improve between 416mhz and 624...
For printing 1000 strings:
-at 416 it takes 4200-3800ms
-at 520 it takes 3300-2800ms
-at 624 it takes 2500-2200ms

So the improve isn't little...

I want to know what you think about this.
The xscale of C1000 (and CXXXX) is the same of some Pocketpc (that run exactly on 520 and 624)?
There are some risks to run always overclocked?

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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2006, 03:20:14 pm »
Well I never opened up a cxx00 but I've opened up my c760 and this is what I noticed:
Although the display is in a metal casing the the bottom is plastic and therefor has poor heat dissipation.
I would not incourage overclocking beond +15% of the cpu clock a cxx0.
It's up to you to judge the thermal sink capabilities of cxx00 devices ;-)

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« Last Edit: July 08, 2006, 03:22:19 pm by louigi600 »
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006, 05:23:20 am »
Thanks for answer.

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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2006, 05:13:13 am »
As far as i know the latter model xscales dont overclock as well as the older ones. my c3000 hits 624Mhz easily and i had a x30 that could do just under 700Mhz (on both you would notice the heat), i asume from your join date that you have one of the newer models

basically the only problem with overclocking is the extra heat generated and the extra current draw (a 50% increse dosent mean 50% extra power). for example. my x30 at full load at 624Mhz (betaplayer 1.5Mbps xvid) would get just above 40mins of usage

if you want to do it i recomend you dont do it in hot areas. dont go above 624Mhz unless you need that sort of power and are plugged into a wall (you really shouldnt need that much power) and you stress test your Z

some are better than others and can work at a slightly lower core voltage at a given freq. compared to other cores. i am unsure of how it is done in pdaXrom but the kernel support generally has these values hardwired into the kernel (ie you cant fiddle with them) which is a shame because if you are willing to set up some automated testing you can net yourself some extra battery life

also i recomend some sort of dynamic cpufreq scalling. this will knock the cpu up to a higher value when you need it and down when you dont. i use to run the ting at less than 100Mhz for decoding MP3's because of the extra battery life it would give me

for the trulley insane i recomend removing the RF shield and installing a mini heatsink jaycar has perfect sized ones that i use to cool 2 ixp425 xscales that do a good job however you could fit somthing a bit bigger in if you want to do a case mod (stop giving me ideas)

for info on how to remove tho RF shielding see the hardware fourms, specifically the bluetooth posts and vist alberters site (currently down) for the multipliers and registers for overclocking i recomend the xcpuscaller fourms (windows CE but they do talk about which multipliers give the best performance) and the intel manual

hope it helps but was probbelly not what you were after
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