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CPU Boost Counter
saratoga:
--- Quote from: (V)3@7Y on June 13, 2008, 09:13:13 AM ---OK, with this in mind, is there... a safety level, originally, the maximum you could manually alter it to is 4.
Which makes me wonder if that was so for a reason. Surely there is a practical limit to high how it can go, otherwise it would have been like this the whole time.
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Putting it higher just boosts the CPU. This wastes power so its not like that by default.
(V)3@7Y:
of course, power usage would be an issue, but that doesn't worry me so much as the thought that all of that energy has to go some place, and its most likely going to be heat. is there currently a maximum value? or is it infinite?
Surely your going to hit a point where things start getting hot?
Im quite fond of my MP3 player and i dont really want it to turn into a blob of molten silicon!
I do think you've missed my point a little... on older builds, there was no possible way of exceeding 4, in the later builds, it will go over 50 (Manually) i dont think it will exceed 4 by default
This is a substantial increase, surely there will be irrepairable side effects?
saratoga:
--- Quote from: (V)3@7Y on June 13, 2008, 09:28:15 AM ---of course, power usage would be an issue, but that doesn't worry me so much as the thought that all of that energy has to go some place, and its most likely going to be heat. is there currently a maximum value? or is it infinite?
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Well the boost counter is probably a 32 bit signed int, so 2^31-1 would be its max value. For boosting itself, its a binary value, so the highest would be "on".
--- Quote from: (V)3@7Y on June 13, 2008, 09:28:15 AM ---Surely your going to hit a point where things start getting hot?
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I think the difference between boosted and unboosted is about 65 mW, so you're unlikely to notice a difference in heat.
--- Quote from: (V)3@7Y on June 13, 2008, 09:28:15 AM ---This is a substantial increase, surely there will be irrepairable side effects?
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More likely someone just changed the GUI control for that screen.
(V)3@7Y:
well put, i think that has covered everything i need to know.
If there is a fire inside my DAP I shall be consulting you
Thanks for everybodies input, it has been an enlightening experience
(V)347Y
Llorean:
The player automatically boosts quite regularly anyway, and there's only two states, "Boosted" and "Unboosted" (well, there's also "Idle" I suppose). Setting the counter to any number that is not 0 makes it "Boosted" all the time. This is pretty much pointless, because the only time it should be "Unboosted" is when it doesn't need "Boosted." Now you're making it skip ever being "Unboosted."
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