
Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 2:21am
by damian
Don't think anyone tried that yet... it seems as though most overclocking efforts have been to OC the iPaq 1910. I could be wrong, though.
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OK, never mind, I was stupid. Anyway, I tried the Speed Stepper program and it WORKS! The program now says my Axim is at 398 MHz, and I now get 7.9 fps instead of 7.0 in Quake. Rejoice!
I'll talk about battery life, stability and amount of smoke produced after I use it a bit more.
Looks like I got a 400 MHz XScale PPC for only $200. Not bad, not bad at all...
For some reason, it took more work than it should've. In case you need any instructions as to how to do it (results may vary, and there's probably a better way to do it since I did this via trial and error):
1. Get Speed Stepper and run it
2. Check the box that says "show more frequencies" and select 398 MHz in the box on the right
3. Axim should lock up, reset it
4. Go to Speed Step again, and select 299 MHz, again in the box on the right. Your Axim shouldn't lock up and you should be able to quit the program.
5. Go into Speed step again and your current speed will be 398! Run Quake or any other games to see the difference.
Sadly, turning off your Axim will reset it back to 300. However, after turning off or doing a soft reset, you only need to do step 4 to go back to 398.
And yes, this probably will kill your Axim. Use at your own risk.
Oh, and the Axim does get quite warm compared to at 300 MHz. Does the 400 MHz Axim warm up noticeably too, or is this a problem?

Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 4:08am
by eminefes
Sweet! I just got 8.2fps in Quake with my Axim at 400Mhz. W00t, that was without any modifications (deleted the config.cfg before I ran the bench). Everything seems faster too. Now I just gotta hope it will be stable.

Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 4:09am
by damian
Mine was stable for the first 5 minutes or so but after that, it was a completely different story. Maybe you just got lucky... I didn't.

Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 5:49am
by damian
Huh? I thought it was obvious that an Axim running at 400 MHz would have the same speed as a 400 MHz Axim. The processor, RAM and ROM are the only difference between the two models.

Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 6:09am
by sponge
I wasn't quite sure from the beginning sounds of it :P

Posted:
Jan 21, 2003 @ 7:36am
by benkenobi0
Is there a website for Pocket Hack Master?