I'm an avid overclocker. The whole idea of taking devices (like our coveted PDAs) and pushing them to their limits is intriguing. For some of us, it's a logical solution to our daily cost-prohibitive hobbyist dilemmas. Buy it cheaper, push it hard and cry as you watch your PDA and Best Buy warranty spontaneously combust.
All because you decided to have more fun than your 200Mhz iPAQ's creaking bones could handle.
XCPUScalar 2004 is a fairly new entrant to the Pocket PC overclocking scene. Their developers, ImmierSoft LLC, make some startling claims:
PDA's based on XSCALE processors can enjoy speed increases of upto 30 to 35% (QUAKE timedemo1 test scores , reported 33 FPS using XCPUScalar on an Axim X30, on iPAQ 2215 is around 20 to 21 FPS. Speed will slightly vary from PDA to PDA. ).
Really? Yes, some wild CPU overclocking tales indeed.
The XCPUScalar 2004 demo on the PocketGear.com site allows for a 15 day evaluation version.
I would surmise that you could easily have time to run the QUAKE timedemo1 test several hundred times within that span. The trial does not include the ability to 'autoscale' or adjust your optimal CPU processing settings in real time as usage becomes available.
Alternatively, you could follow my cynical foray into the wild world of Pocket PC overclocking while I conduct some more grueling XCPUScalar trials than, say, Quake timedemo statistics from PPC software developers. How this fares on the best pocket pc emulators available remains to be seen.
Hey, if it fries, it fries. We're always looking for excuses to upgrade, even if it means shoving a virtual 1Ghz warp drive into our ppcs just to see what happens.
