Raspberry Pi: Turbo – Warranty safe overclocking
Raspberry Pi’s can now shift into turbo by changing some configuration settings and getting a 50% power boost, all without voiding the warranty
Since the Raspberry Pi’s release, it hasn’t been uncommon for people to overvolt and overclock their Pi’s to get a little extra oomph for day to day tasks. Linux User’s Editor Russell Barnes has even had a look at it, reporting that there was no discernable heat increase on his board. Now this unofficial power boost is becoming official, with newer distro images coming with the ability to let you turn on turbo mode.
There are now five overlock presets in raspi-config, which will increase the processors speed to 1 GHz at its highest level. In tests performed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they found a 50% increase in performance, and the best part is it won’t void your warranty. In a blog about it, they do advise in using a decent power supply while testing this.
Updating should get you the updated config file, but if not you can grab an image from the RPi website.
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I had no issue getting this going on my Raspberry Pi, I’ve put together a brief guide on upgrading and overclocking as well as a basic overclock example.
http://www.rootusers.com/raspberry-pi-turbo-mode-for-increased-performance/
Hi ;
Tried this http://www.rootusers.com/raspberry-pi-turbo-mode-for-increased-performance but some how it did not work on my raspberry pi , does this apply to every version of pi or just specific ones ?