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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Juju on January 14, 2012, 07:15:38 pm
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Remember Nover, a Ndless 2 program that lets you overclock your Nspire? It lets you increase the base, CPU and AHB bus speed by 20%.
Obviously, the CX also can be overclocked. We don't want to leave you without overclocking tools, so a version of Nover for Ndless 3.1 is in preparation. With this tool, the base CPU can be overclocked to 378 MHz, so is the CPU and the AHB bus to 189 MHz. Of course, your calculator would be unstable with the settings all maxed up. Calc84maniac reports a CPU speed of 246 MHz without the calc rebooting because it's too fast and an AHB speed of 90 MHz without the LCD and other stuff being screwed up. It's still a nice improvement over the original CPU speed of 132 MHZ and 66 MHz for the AHB.
(http://i43.servimg.com/u/f43/13/23/13/53/nover211.png)
Source: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=119706
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This is pretty nice. Also I'm curious if the 246 MHz speed drains the battery fast? I remember on my regular Nspire Clickpad, if I played gbc4nspire for more than 30 minutes, my cheap batteries (from the dollar store) would be drained completely.
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Note that nDoom is running perfectly without any overclocking.
So just imagine what kind of games we could play with a bit of overclocking ;)
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Wow... That's insane!
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Note that nDoom is running perfectly without any overclocking.
So just imagine what kind of games we could play with a bit of overclocking ;)
Again, Starcraft :P
It would probably not fit on-calc, lol, though (unless you got rid of cinematics), and it would be a ridiculous amount of work to recode from no source. X.x
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Nspire CX comes with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to worry about buying new batteries at least. I haven't tested battery usage yet, though.
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Yeah I know but if actual batteries lasted this short, I wonder what it will be with the Nspire one. I hope it doesn't last like 10 seconds D: O.O
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Either way, still have to wait for Ndless.
More Lua games that are usually too slow will be playable :D
Others will be too fast and I will die in a second...
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Wow, this is one ndless program, I've never heard of. But I am glad I did. Awesome!
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Note that nDoom is running perfectly without any overclocking.
So just imagine what kind of games we could play with a bit of overclocking ;)
Again, Starcraft :P
Or maybe it could run Crysis O.O
Anyway, awesome. All this stuff is being developed before Ndless 3 is even public, which makes me want it that much more ;D
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A port of calcnet and we could have multiplayer starcraft! :P sounds like fun.
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*ports Crysis*
*falls in the port*
*is wet*
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it will be interesting to see how long the batery life will be once it is overclocked..
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I'm taking a wild guess here but, the first "Rocket"?
We are getting ready for 8 colorful rockets, stay tuned…
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I'm taking a wild guess here but, the first "Rocket"?
We are getting ready for 8 colorful rockets, stay tuned…
No.
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I'm taking a wild guess here but, the first "Rocket"?
We are getting ready for 8 colorful rockets, stay tuned…
No.
so this isn't one of the rockets?
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I'm pretty sure each rocket are one of the Ndless programs along with other Ndless-related things. Ndless 3.1 gotta be one of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ndless 3.1/CX ports of nDoom, gbc4nspire, NESpire, mViewer and this CPU speed modifier program were rockets too.
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the title reminds me of the cemetech space program :P
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I'm pretty sure each rocket are one of the Ndless programs along with other Ndless-related things. Ndless 3.1 gotta be one of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ndless 3.1/CX ports of nDoom, gbc4nspire, NESpire, mViewer and this CPU speed modifier program were rockets too.
so we have 5 out of 7 what's the next program
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I'm sure there was something non-calc related but still related to Ndless. Besides that Idk.
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So, I did some extensive testing while the CPU was clocked to 246MHz. It was very stable once I lowered the AHB speed to a divisor of 4 rather than 3, that is, 61MHz rather than 82MHz (higher AHB caused occasional failure when reading/writing files). But anyway, I ran gbc4nspire almost non-stop at 246MHz with the backlight at the second-lowest setting, and it died at almost exactly 17 hours! :D So, I think clocking the processor higher will not badly affect battery life at all. The backlight is probably much more of a factor.
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Wow that is pretty good. Did you draw a lot of stuff on the screen though? I wonder if that can have an impact?
That said the batteries I must have used must have sucked a lot so maybe around 90% power left they just lacked enough power to keep the calc turned ON. :P
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Wow that is pretty good. Did you draw a lot of stuff on the screen though? I wonder if that can have an impact?
That said the batteries I must have used must have sucked a lot so maybe around 90% power left they just lacked enough power to keep the calc turned ON. :P
Yeah, most of the time I had it running the Oracle of Ages opening cutscene which keeps looping, so the LCD was changing a lot.
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Just to make a comparison, the fx9860 can be overclocked to about 120Mhz at quad speed using UTIL.
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Oh.. I was expecting a REAL rocket when I saw this topic. :P
No, overclocking is cool. :)