here’s a link from maurizio that has instructions for overclocking your favorite ti graphing calculator. a simple swap of a capacitor and you can get your homework finished double speed. add a switch and you can convert back to normal speed for playing games.
This has been something fun to do in the TI Calc community since at least 1998.
Heads up, though- battery life will dramatically suffer if you’re overclocking (duh!). Be sure to keep a spare set if you overclock your TI and then sit for the SAT or you may find that Very Bad Things ™ will happen.
Posted at 11:44 pm on Jan 15th, 2005 by john gilman
:’( Dang, there is nothing about my HP48GX!!!
Posted at 12:00 am on Jan 16th, 2005 by Joel Johnson
here you go joel. let us know how it works out.
http://www.geocities.com/hp_upgrade/
Posted at 1:31 am on Jan 16th, 2005 by jason striegel
Awesome hack. Thanks. Truly geeky.
Posted at 10:00 am on Jan 16th, 2005 by Greg
Yep, this is truely an old hack. Getting the soldering right and getting the switch to fit were a little troublesome, but, given that I was working with a ham-fisted soldering iron and I was just barely a teenager at the time, well, it worked out quite well. It made ‘Marble’ truely interesting on the TI85.
will this work similarily and safely on a ti-83?
Posted at 2:30 pm on Jan 17th, 2005 by joel finkbeiner
unforunately…this can make a bad calculator. I had one melt the processor when I overclocked it. It ran awesome…then died.
Posted at 11:05 am on Jan 18th, 2005 by Andrew
great
Posted at 8:13 am on Nov 25th, 2005 by Vedaprrabhu
great
Posted at 8:14 am on Nov 25th, 2005 by Vedaprrabhu
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this works, but I just removed the cap alltogether. No side effects except it was faster.
Of course I never even came close to using the full capacity of the calculator, but I could add and subtract at lightspeed!
Tetris was tough though.
BILL
Posted at 11:30 pm on Jan 15th, 2005 by BILL