is 180Mhz safe

[horrain]

i was testing out the different versions of Snes9xGP because iv been told it has save support and also has audio support, orignaly i was thinging if i used sound it would kill the FPS, but running my gp32 at 180Mhz for 30mins or so with no crashing i began to wounder if the 40Mhz over clock is safe.
iv not done any mods or anything technical, the settings for Snes9xGP are as follow

frameskip 3
brightness 2
sound on

all the games i tested worked fine (only tryed zelda and smash tv as there the only snes game i own) and they worked fine, smash tv was a little fast, and the audio was speeded up and the dude who intros the game sounded like he was on helium

anyways enought of my rantings is 180Mhz safe or should i drop down a notch or 2?

 

[craigix]

If it runs ok its fine, but it will use up your batteries quite fast.

It will crash long before it does any damage to itself.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

 

[horrain]

ok cool, if the person who i brought it from says its safe then ill continue to play snes games at 180 Mhz

 

[Sid Elias]

I was under the impression that anything past 166 mhz was (for pretty much all of us) impossible without some kind of voltage increase to the CPU.

 

[GP32 Kirby]

When I first got my GP32 I played GP Engine at 166MHz and it was running fine with no crashes (until I realised I was playing R-Type way too much ). Later I found out those "rumors" of the overclockin doing damage and ended up stopping that.. after Craigx's experiement, however, I went back to it with GP Engine and other programs that had overclocking at the time, but I could only get as far as 155MHz for 5 mins at the least without crashing (166 just left the GP32 hanging)

I guess from being tried on many people that the GP32 IS capable of very high overclocking speeds like 180MHz, but only when it's new.. the GP32's age becomes a ticking timebomb before overclocking performance begins to decrease over time.. sounds like a pretty appropriate theory, doesnt it?

 

[Esn]

I guess from being tried on many people that the GP32 IS capable of very high overclocking speeds like 180MHz, but only when it's new.. the GP32's age becomes a ticking timebomb before overclocking performance begins to decrease over time.. sounds like a pretty appropriate theory, doesnt it?

Hey, this is a major piece of news if it's true!

Has anyone else experienced this, and after how much time? :blink:

 

[STRIDER_YUZO]

I tried running the 180mhz snes and genesis emulators on my gp and none of the games seem to boot at all. I have no doubts that the higher emus should run as other OC'd emus run fine (Gpengine, etc)- Im currently using the european FW and I think that may have a bit to do with it.

Are there any other europe FW users experiencing the same issue?

Yuzo