Clear Speed - 30-50% speed increase!

[NMkiD]

Not sure I do but I guess we'll get out chance to find out soon:

saw it on pocketpcthoughts



Version 2.0 is a FREE upgrade and adds many new options such as:
- New speed settings that allow for longer battery life than a normal iPaq 1910.
- The ability to set different speeds for different programs.
- Automatic scaling of speed when needed by the device.
- Dynamic display and adjustment of speed via an icon in the navigation bar.
- Reduction of speed and backlight level based on remaining battery power.

Currently Clear Speed only works on the iPaq 1910 but support for the Dell Axim series and the Toshiba e740 is coming soon."

What do you guys think? Does this sound like a gimick? Legitimate? I guess I'll do a full backup adn try it when it does come out for the Axim and we'll do some benchmarks and stuff to see if it really does take advantage of the X-Scale processor liek ti says it does.

later fellas

[Swordsman74]

This is just one of a dozen or so similar programs now out there that "enhance" control of the Xscale processor. Some will overclock a 300mhz to 400mhz, some will slow a 400mhz down to 100mhz for better battery life, and other tweak tricks. If you look around (even in this forum) you can find ones developed specific for the Axim - try those before you use one designed for different harware.

[JakeRich]

Experiments with PocketHackMaster show that the Axim will only accept certain settings of the factors that set CPU speed. Basically, the L value must be 27, nothing else. Then M can be 1 or 2 and N can be 1, 2 or 2.5. That limits the Axim to 100, 200, 300, 400, or 500 Mhz. The interim speeds (177, 236, 354, 472 and others) cannot be reached by the Ax because all of the require L to be something OTHER than 27. Also, most 300's won't do 500 and some won't do 400 reliably. Some 400's won't do 500 reliably. I would be very leary of a "generic" speed setter that may or may not adhere to what has been discovered about the Axim. Let the User Beware! The payback for a "bad" setting is a Hard Reset.

I guess it all depends on your use. For games I'm sure an extra 20% speed boost (400mhz to 500mhz) would be nice (if it really did help), but you'd lose some battery life. I'm not so sure any of this really helps that much. Real work speed increase is probably much lower and most likely at the cost of stability.

[NMkiD]

Swordman I know plenty about all the other programs out there, shit I post the info on alot of them, this is too see what you guys think about a different way to get the extra speed, this program claim not to overclock but to take advantage of the xscale CPU, whatever that means, heres a quote:

"Clear Speed does not "overclock" the CPU, it runs it at a speed for which the CPU has been specified to operate by Intel. Clear Speed uses the turbo mode functionality of the CPU to achieve this speed change as prescribed by Intel."