My Magician: 128MB RAM / 27MB ROM / 520MHz OC / 1.12.00WWE

[palmVer]

I am now very happy with my Magician hardware configuration:

1/ Just did a 128MB RAM (from 64MB) hardware upgrade (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23781)
2/ ROM Bigstorage patched to 27MB (from 7MB) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23392)
3/ Upgrade to the latest ROM & RADIO version 1.12.00WWE (from 1.03.00) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23288)
4/ CPU overclocked to 520MHz (from 416MHz) (using XCPUScalar 2.87 http://immiersoft.com)
:)

[dnp_now]

does overclocking detrimental to the health of your jam?

What has been the positive and negative effects of overclocking?

thanks

[jackleung]

I rather concern about stability. So far I found no o/c software (both xcpu scaler and PHM) run stabily on magician.

[HBK]

Neither have I. But maybe it's just that not all devices are created equal, and some OC better than other... :(

[Dandie]

PHM works well but the benefit of oc is just small. Only few applications really feel faster and you decrease the battery life dramatically, even when underclocking (this is due to the missing voltage regulation from these softwares). My opinion: forget about it - the magician is quite fast when you keep your system clean (use the software CheckNotifications!).

[palmVer]

The 520MHz (from 416MHz) OC brings about 10% increase of performance on average, see the attached benchmark result I made.

As I ActiveSync the Magician very often and it is re-charged at the same time, I pesonally am not bordered too much by the decrease of battery life dramatically, if any. Just my 2 cents :)

OT: I bet on DAVENPO!

[saldous]

You lost your bet! Venus won.

[solitary]

I personally found PHM to be a better overclocking program than XCPUScalar.

You might want to try PHM and add manually 618MHz (124,62,62,T) which gives you an SI of 329, vs. an SI of 315 of 520MHz.

618MHz gives the best performance in my case, even better than all those over 900Mhz clock rates I got by PHM's automatic settings. Some of them might be fake but some of them just gives the same SI benchmark for the same bus speed no matter what the processor speed is.

[solitary]

..... AND..... it does make a very noticeable improvement in running certain programs, such as the game console emulators......