First the good news: A hacker has figured out how to make Samsung’s latest smartphone even more powerful, by convincing it to run all 8 cores at once and overclocking those cores for good measure. Now the bad news: The chip generated enough heat to cook itself and the phone is basically dead. So don’t […]
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Rockchip RK3188 chip overclocked to run at 1.92 GHz
Rockchip’s RK3188 quad-core processor is already one of the most powerful ARM Cortex-A9 processors on the market. But it turns out you can make it even faster. Out of the box, most tablets and mini PCs that come with the processor run at clock speeds up to 1.6 GHz. But the folks at ArcTablet created […]
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Inhon Carbon Tablet looks like a laptop… without a keyboard
Inhon is showing off a new Windows 8 tablet which has a built-in base that makes it look like a laptop. But there’s no built-in keyboard. You’ll need to connect an external keyboard if you want to get some typing done. Instead, when you unfold the base of the Inhon Carbon Tablet, the computer will […]
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Raspberry Pi introduces 1 GHz turbo mode overclocking option
The Raspberry Pi mini computer has a 700 MHz Broadcom BCM2835 ARM11 processor. But users have been adjusting the voltage and overclocking the chip to run at higher speeds for months. Up until now, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has supported doing that — but warned that it could potentially damage the hardware, and that it […]
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Overclock a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) to 1.3 GHz
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) is an inexpensive 7 inch tablet with a decent screen, a relatively zippy 1 GHz dual core processor, and Android 4.0 operating system. But if you want to get even more performance out of this $249 tablet and don’t mind voiding your warranty (and possibly breaking something in the […]
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Overclock an HP TouchPad with Android and Bricked-Kernel
The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. But if that’s not fast enough for you, it turns out the chip can easily support higher clock speeds. HP originally shipped the tablet with webOS software, and webOS hackers have built custom kernels that allow you to set the CPU speed […]
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HP TouchPad tablet overclocked to 1.5 GHz
The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It’s one of the fastest mobile processors available, so you’d think think the device would feel pretty zippy — but apparently you’d be wrong. While I haven’t played with the tablet, one of the top complaints I’ve seen from reviewers is that it […]
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You may soon be able to buy an overclocked Android tablet… or just overclock your own
Comments Off on You may soon be able to buy an overclocked Android tablet… or just overclock your ownThe NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor which powers most tablets running Google Android 3.x Honeycomb normally runs at 1 GHz. But hackers have been overclocking the dual core chip to run at 1.5 GHz or even higher speeds. You sacrifice a little battery life when you run the chip at speeds exceeding 1 GHz, but you […]
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Tablet hacks: Vizio tablet rooted, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 overclocked
As Android tablets continue to hit the streets, I could probably start a full time blog doing nothing but covering tablet hacks. Every day someone has figured out how to root a new device, create a custom ROM, or overclock a processor. Here are three of the latest. (And no, I don’t plan to cover […]
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NOOK Color Tweaks cranks the eReader up to 1.3 GHz
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color hacking continues. Shortly after the 7 inch color eBook Reader running Google Android was released, hackers figured out how to root it, install third party apps, and overclock it. Now there’s a new utility designed to make hacking the NOOK Color even easier. The app is called NOOK Color […]