Palm Pre – overclock now maxes out at 1.2 GhZ

When it comes to overclocking processors, getting 50% more speed out of a CPU is already considered “amazing value”. On the Pre, the 50% threshold would be around 900 MhZ – but hackers have managed to exceed this barrier for quite some time.

unixpsycho has now posted the following on the PreCentral forums:

* 1.2GHz
* NextGen Screenstate with temp monitoring
* Memory tweaks in kernel (no more TMC errors)
* No compcache (unlike previous F10x kernels)
* Only with Screenstate governor. Scales from 500MHz

This is to test 1.2GHz and new screenstate code.

This version of screenstate:

* Temp monitoring. Over 55C it scales down to 500MHz (or at least it should)
* Wall charging (1000mA) and Touchstone will scale to 500MHz, USB charging stays at max speed.
* LCD off: scale to policy->min, LCD on: scale to policy->max

Given that the CPU is now operating at two times its nominal frequency, things should get interesting in the near future – I am definitely not installing this onto my Pre…

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2. Palm Pre, Touchstone torn down
3. Palm Pre – 800MhZ overclock released
4. webOS 1.4.1.1 for Verizon’s Pre released
5. On early Touchstone sales – or – Sprint is unprepared