Raspberry Pi Hits 1GHz With Official 'Turbo Mode'

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @08:38AM from the awesome-because-they-test-with-quake-3 dept.

hypnosec writes "The Raspberry Pi, which was recently used to build a cluster, has officially been given a 'Turbo Mode' by The Raspberry Pi Foundation, thus enabling overclocking. It will bump the frequency of the on-board processor as high as 1GHz as long as the temperature stays below 85C. The patch would dynamically increase the voltage and frequency of the core until the thermals hold. According to the Foundation, users have the option of choosing one of five peak frequencies, the highest being 1GHz."

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Re:No heatsink? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 08:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is not true if you actually read. The patch detects overheating and downscales the CPU frequency if it gets too hot. That doesn't sound to me like a heatsink is unnecessary.
Re:No heatsink? by CanHasDIY · 2012-09-19 09:38 · Score: 5, Funny

They call it "package on package".
Would Google for specs, but afraid of getting gay porn by mistake...

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