Consoles?

[100%TotallyNude]

Does anyone know of anyone who's successfully overclocked a game console of any kind?


------------------
Now sporting a pIII 733 flip-chip on an i815 w/Mushkin 256M 133 fsb rig under a GOrb...

[Arcadian]

Originally posted by 100%TotallyNude:
Does anyone know of anyone who's successfully overclocked a game console of any kind?

What would be the point? Games designed for consoles are already fine tuned around the original specifications. Overclocking a console wouls probably screw up the timing of a lot of games, making them unplayable. Besides, all of the components on a console motherboard are embedded, thus making adjustments nearly impossible, and there sure as heck isn't any software adjustments available. Of course, this is just my opinion.

[awa64]

I think the good people who work for the hardware development divisions at Sony Inc., Nintendo of America, Nintendo of Japan, and Sony Inc. have done so, but most people in public haven't tried it. Think about it, who the heck wants to overclock a PS2?

------------------
266MHz Pentium 2 or 800MHz AMD Athlon T-Bird
64MB PC100 SDRAM or 128MB PC133 SDRAM
ASUS P3V133 or GIBABYTE GA-7Zx
AWE64 SoundBlaster or Soundblaster Live!
Viewsonic A75 or Viewsonic A75f
Matrox Millenium GII or Rage TNT-2
Windows 98 or Windows ME
6gb or 45gb
Backpack CD-RW or Panasonic 4x4x32
aDSL or aDSL

<The many systems of awa64>

[The WhiteRabbit]

Well, I've heard of overclocking a palm so it could run a gameboy emulator effectively.

I think the problem with overclocking consoles is that they're all set to run at one specific speed, with no provisions made for upgradability.

------------------
ABit KT7-Raid
AMD Duron 600@927 (103x9)
256 MB of Crucial cas2 PC133@137
30 GB IBM Deskstar GXP75
Ricoh 6x4x32x CD-RW 7080A
Pioneer DVD-105 (16x Slot)
GeForce2 GTS (204 core, 394 mem)
Diamond MX300 (Vortex2)
6916 3DMarks (Mad Onion's 3DMark 2000)

[Moridin]

Not that it’s worth the trouble of trying but you could likely change the crystal (s ?). This may have some undesirable side effects like not being able to keep track of time accurately since everything possibly even the real time clock (does it have one) would be effected.

------------------
Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.

[AMD_Forever]

probably no one has overclocked a console for the following reasons

a) how often do consoles have slowdown?
b) a tv only has 60hz refresh rate, and most consoles already do 60fps without overclocking anyways.

------------------
Instead of AMD_Forever, I really think it's more like "Competition_Forever"

[100%TotallyNude]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
What would be the point?

Don't know. Some one at worked asked me and I had to say I didn't know, so I thought I'd ask here.


------------------
Now sporting a pIII 733 flip-chip on an i815 w/Mushkin 256M 133 fsb rig under a GOrb...

[Abit400]

You can overclock the TI-83 series graphing calculator from TI. Graphing goes a lot faster, but the timings in games gets messed up, and it eats through batteries like, well, a, um, <mental block>.

[AMD_Forever]

Originally posted by Abit400:
You can overclock the TI-83 series graphing calculator from TI. Graphing goes a lot faster, but the timings in games gets messed up, and it eats through batteries like, well, a, um, <mental block>.

how about it eats batteries like an original athlon 700 on .25 micron process in a laptop.

------------------
Instead of AMD_Forever, I really think it's more like "Competition_Forever"