Overclocking the EeePC
I finally tried the EEECTL tool. Really nice hack - and since the CPU and chipset are actually specked at 900MHz, you aren’t technically overclocking them; one could make the argument, though, that the thermal management of the EeePC is not designed for that clock speed, so you are doing this at your own risk.
The tool is brilliantly easy to use and just as the benchmarks predicted, this does make a nice difference when doing kernel compiles and things like that.
So the way I use this is to increase the clock when I do compiles or other activities where I want a little more performance, but reduce the clock when I’m just blogging or surfing the net (like right now) in order to save battery life and reduce the risk of overheating.
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