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Hi,

Apologies for a silly question.
What is the stok rom max frequency?

I thought it is 1.2Ghz but cpu spy says 1.008Ghz.
Thanks,
Sygin

sygin wrote:Hi,

Apologies for a silly question.
What is the stok rom max frequency?

I thought it is 1.2Ghz but cpu spy says 1.008Ghz.
Thanks,
Sygin

Cpu spy I believe will tell you what frequency the CPU is running at when tested not necessarily the maximum stable speed that the CPU can run at. Specs are constantly changing both in hardware and software but it is most likely that if you have a fairly current model tablet that it will moderate its cpu speed according to need and this may be from 400Mhz to 1.2 Ghz.

The A8 can run at 1.2Ghz but may not be stable. 1.008 is more stable on mine, but each CPU is different.

Thank you for the replies.

Yes cpu spy shows what frequencies are being used. I would expect that if I run a benchmark, cpu spy would list 1.2Ghz as the max frequency.

When I started playing with the govener and found that when setting the max frequency to 1.2 the Extreme rebooted. This confused me as 1.2Ghz is not an overclock.

It was only when I ran cpu spy and saw that the max was 1.008 did I realised that my stock system does not reach 1.2Ghz but defaults to a max of 1.008Ghz.

When I bought the Extreme it was listed as having a 1.2Ghz CPU so I would not expect a setting of 1.2Ghz to be unstable. i.e. 1.2Ghz should not be considered overclocking the extreme.

Is this correct is the stock Extreme clocked at 1.008Ghz or am I missing somthing?

Thanks,
Sygin

1.2Ghz is the very top of for stability and not all work. I did a few tests on mine and it is much more stable and gets better benchmark results running at 1008mhz.

Thank you for the information Piers.

I will max it out at 1.008Ghz.

The actual chip used in these devices costs around (at latest check) £3.90 each. They are well designed, however they aren't Intel quality.

The main thing I try and remember is that I have paid less than £200 (I paid £165 for mine) for a high quality tablet which is the same specification (nearly) as an iPad 2 but with a higher battery life, Flash support and good support for mixing and matching firmware and roms.

I think some people forget that.

Yes you do have a valid point. The Scroll Extreme is a great device and I am amazed at how usefull it is.

Benchmarks and CPU clock speeds can be very distracting when the real issue is user experience which was great before I found out about the clock issue.

On a good note I have managed to "overclock" to 1.1Ghz.

If you want to test the stability then download Stability Test from Play and run the third option on there. If it works for 2+ hours then you have a stable device.