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Hi. My question us what CPU speed can I use before the desire s takes damage? Thanks
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Would not go over 1200mhz for general use but in the end it comes down to heat and chip quality. Some chips will run faster and produce less heat then others, you'll have to test yours! Don't over volt even if it is possible?
That's about all I can give you on the matter.
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um... just a quick question... why do You need more power? I mean what for??
n64 and psx emulators - full speed, gameloft's dungeon hunter 2 and rainbow six - smooth as my wifes ass, all the flash movies on web or divx offline - no problem, general use - as good as gingerbread can deliver.
I was thinking about which dual core beast shall I buy and ended up with this pocketable and powerful beauty.
... back to the topic - I wouldn't overclock it over 1.5 ghz, even then only for demanding tasks. battery life would decrease as well and I wouldn't trade that for a bit more fps.

Okay. Thank you guys
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bronx said:
um... just a quick question... why do You need more power? I mean what for??
n64 and psx emulators - full speed, gameloft's dungeon hunter 2 and rainbow six - smooth as my wifes ass, all the flash movies on web or divx offline - no problem, general use - as good as gingerbread can deliver.
I was thinking about which dual core beast shall I buy and ended up with this pocketable and powerful beauty.
... back to the topic - I wouldn't overclock it over 1.5 ghz, even then only for demanding tasks. battery life would decrease as well and I wouldn't trade that for a bit more fps.
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Good response, I bought a Desire S recently too and feared the "single core" 1 GHz CPU wouldn't be much faster than my Legend clocked at 768 MHz, after all it is only 232 MHz difference. Couldn't have been more wrong. The phone is a beast.

1.2 ghz is a good speed if you wanna overclock (& also this speed is more than enough)
1.4-1.5 ghz is the limit, anything more than that is very unstable and can cause damage to your cpu

Hey guys. I have a Desire HD. Although they're different phones, i'm sure the internals are almost exactly the same, bar few differences. As such, the cpu should also be the same. I tried out different cpu speeds. I kept my phone at 1.72ghz for a couple of weeks. The phone got pretty hot when using Wifi and such, but didn't get too hot. I'd say the safe point is 1.5ghz but at the stock voltage. Works for me, should work for you guys too I can get 1.7ghz at 1325mv, which is good enough for me I didn't get random crashes etc. My persona highest on this phone was around 2.1 ghz, which was insanely high, the phone was super fast, but got hot blazing hot and the phone started flashing orange led lights and then shut down for like 10 minutes straight. I thought it was gone but...nope, was lucky thank god LOL
Always be careful. If you have insurance, then go ahead and by all means clock the hell out of it if you don't mind a decrease in battery life. But if you have no insurance, and bought it sim-free...i'd suggest 1.3ghz...better be safe than sorry, wouldn't you agree?

the phone started flashing orange led lights and then shut down for like 10 minutes straight. I thought it was gone but...nope, was lucky thank god LOL
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Haha, bet that was a ball-shrinking moment. Made me laugh reading it.
But seriously, considering the potential damage & the native performance of the DS you wouldn't want to go crazy really.
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Hi!
I succesfully overclocked my DS to 1,5GHz(first to 1,3GHz, than to 1,4GHz), and it's fully stable with stock voltages. I use virtuous unity 1.29.0, and tweaked the built in OC daemon. Tested with stability test v1.5, and no problems after 30 minutes. Temperature is around 40 C(plugged in, charging, and running stability test).
What do you think, can I use it for 24/7? The temperatures are not high, and the phone is rock stable, so is it safe?
Thanks for answer.

ffodi said:
Hi!
I succesfully overclocked my DS to 1,5GHz(first to 1,3GHz, than to 1,4GHz), and it's fully stable with stock voltages. I use virtuous unity 1.29.0, and tweaked the built in OC daemon. Tested with stability test v1.5, and no problems after 30 minutes. Temperature is around 40 C(plugged in, charging, and running stability test).
What do you think, can I use it for 24/7? The temperatures are not high, and the phone is rock stable, so is it safe?
Thanks for answer.
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why do you need to run it on 1.5ghz? it is very fast at 1.2ghz
& also 1.5ghz will consume more battery & if you put some load on the cpu like a little gaming or a lot of browsing it can get heated up
overclocking more than necessary isnt good as there can be hidden damage to the chip(even if the processor doesn't get heated up)
read post #3 here
so always go easy on the overclocking

kartkk said:
why do you need to run it on 1.5ghz? it is very fast at 1.2ghz
& also 1.5ghz will consume more battery & if you put some load on the cpu like a little gaming or a lot of browsing it can get heated up
overclocking more than necessary isnt good as there can be hidden damage to the chip(even if the processor doesn't get heated up)
read post #3 here
so always go easy on the overclocking
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Thanks for the answer! I overclocked it to 1,5GHz becouse I like it if everything is fast as lightning.
I know it can consume more battery, but it's not a problem for me.
I've read that post, it's useful thanks, but i think if everything is on stock voltage it cant hurt the cpu. I overclock my desktop rig also since ~15 years, and never had problems with that. I know that it's not the same, but I hope there will be no problems with that.

Thoughts on OverClocking Sensation

Hey guys,
Ive been using SetCPU since it was fixed for the sensation. I am curious about what others have observed as far as battery life and performance goes.
I am running 1.8Ghz with a cpu voltage of 1.265V (1265000uV).
My battery doesnt last all that long despite all the profiles I have in place. I guess thats expected when you overclock by that much, huh? Is it worth it though?
Im sure more of you out there have experience to share. Im not talking Quadrant and benchmark scores, Im talking REAL use!
I am beginning to feel that dropping the frequency down may be in order since I cannot find anything that needs 1.8Ghz to work on this phone. Plus, less frequency means less required voltage. That would mean more battery!
Anyone care to chime in with their overclock frequency + voltage and experience?
Matt

I'm also interested in getting some input from other users, without having to clog up the respective overclocking threads in the Development section.
Yesterday after work, I set up the 1.5Ghz Undervolted option using utking's tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1168707). I didn't see too much need to push my CPU too hard, and a stable UV always piques my interest.
I created a couple of basic SetCPU profiles (screen off, battery below 20%, temperature < 50C), and scaling on demand up to 1512Mhz, my phone took about another 7-8 hours of moderately heavy use (Navigation, Maps, Yelp, photos, etc.) before it was on its last legs.
Bear in mind that I've been using the Anker 1900mAh battery. But even after the OC-UV that I set up, this was at least as good of battery usage as before without any SetCPU or overclocking, and actually seemed to be a little bit better to be honest.

I just dropped down to 1.6Ghz @ 1.26V...
I couldn't keep my phone from freezing with anything less than 1.26V @ 1.6Ghz. We will see how this goes for a few days and compare to my previous 1.8Ghz @ 1.265V.
So far, speed seems to be FASTER than 1.8Ghz. My Quadrant score (only being used here for comparison reasons) was 2700 right off the bat, whereas 1.8Ghz would peak around 2700-2800 after several tries.
The carousel works much better! I can swipe through quickly and have it scroll with zero lag. I can also fast swipe and watch is spin nicely!
Google Earth and Maps is about the same as 1.8Ghz.
Before, at 1.8Ghz, I could probably get 16 hours out of my phone with VERY LIGHT use. (A few 2min phone calls, check mail throughout the day, check the web a little). I am charging the phone up and will report back later.
Matt

I went down from 1.62 UV to 1.5 UV,because I could not see any difference in general use nad in benchmarks(except Quadrant) and battery consumption is much bigger with 1.62 with exact same profiles on setCpu.I think that this is best compromise between speed and battery life and as far as I know this is native clock speed of 8260 Snapdragon.

mrg02d said:
I just dropped down to 1.6Ghz @ 1.26V...
I couldn't keep my phone from freezing with anything less than 1.26V @ 1.6Ghz. We will see how this goes for a few days and compare to my previous 1.8Ghz @ 1.265V.
So far, speed seems to be FASTER than 1.8Ghz. My Quadrant score (only being used here for comparison reasons) was 2700 right off the bat, whereas 1.8Ghz would peak around 2700-2800 after several tries.
The carousel works much better! I can swipe through quickly and have it scroll with zero lag. I can also fast swipe and watch is spin nicely!
Google Earth and Maps is about the same as 1.8Ghz.
Before, at 1.8Ghz, I could probably get 16 hours out of my phone with VERY LIGHT use. (A few 2min phone calls, check mail throughout the day, check the web a little). I am charging the phone up and will report back later.
Matt
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How simple is it to temp-root and overclock? I am really only interested in overclocking to speed up Sense, and you said it performs better with a speed boost.
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Very,very easy,just read this tread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1168707

I have mine undervolted at VDD_1175000 and 1500MHz. I like it very much...makes a big difference in quadarant score, but not sure in reality how much faster. Battery life is fine (when the phone is on). Have not experiened FC's
I have modified eugenes batch file to push my kernel file and preferred speed after perma-temp-root and now is all in one click...

So here is a little update:
Its been about 8 hours since full charge and I am at 55% battery left.
1.6Ghz @ 1.26V, On Demand.
Ive been checking email, making a few calls, and surfing the net with both wifi and GPRS (was out of the network, away from 4G). I also played Angry birds for a little bit and showed off Google Maps and Earth to my Mom.
Now that Im back home, ive turned back on 4G...
Ive noticed a slight amount of hesitation while opening and closing things, but nothing bad.
I havent had any profiles kick in yet, but they will soon with the battery getting low. I will resist charging the phone and see if I make it through the night, using it as I need it. I will report tomorrow.
Matt

I must be doing something wrong.
I am rooted and running LeeDriods 1.2 Rom. When I launch setcpu the only options i have are 1000 mghz? WTF am i doing wrong?

i think at LeeDroid 1.2 you must not use setcpu but Demon control?

BigBoppa said:
i think at LeeDroid 1.2 you must not use setcpu but Demon control?
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Hmmm, okay. I saw where set cpu was updated for the sensation in the latest release but it doesn't seem to support overclocking with this rom.

Shame that as i was about to get that rom and flash it onto my phone, glad i came in here now
Running Leedroid 1.0
Kernel @ 1.7ghz max, i have it set to 1.5ghz and 192mhz
Runs hot when i play finger racing or reckless racing or modern combat 2 or something intensive, but besides the heat, it drains just like it normally would to be honest, maybe a little quicker, definite speed increase in overall user experience, without an OC the rom just flops, better than stock but just crap, OC is needed.

[Q] My device keeps powering off when the I put the screen to sleep.

For some reason since this morning after a full night of charging everytime my screen goes to sleep or I pus the power button to put the screen to sleep the device completely powers off. Last night I did flash infusion to oc/uv but had several issues and just kept the the device clocked at 12k and did slight uv. Im using setcpu and have a profile setup for screen off but I disabled in hopes to remedy the total poweroff. Any suggestions? How can infusion be removed?

supadupadoug said:
For some reason since this morning after a full night of charging everytime my screen goes to sleep or I pus the power button to put the screen to sleep the device completely powers off. Last night I did flash infusion to oc/uv but had several issues and just kept the the device clocked at 12k and did slight uv. Im using setcpu and have a profile setup for screen off but I disabled in hopes to remedy the total poweroff. Any suggestions? How can infusion be removed?
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Flash community kernel your getting sod or try removing your Oc UV settings
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Ok thanks. What is sod by the way???

supadupadoug said:
Ok thanks. What is sod by the way???
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Sleep of death
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oh lol im learning slowly but fa showly.

supadupadoug said:
oh lol im learning slowly but fa showly.
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All good
Infusion kernel is great kernel but your settings are going to be trial an error play around with.UV that's usually the probably with sod
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Question about uv. is less best ie -25? and what does disabling the various clock speeds do?

Try using setcpu to throttle your frequencies. If you're having sod that usually means your phone isn't getting the required voltage for your CPU and you're choking your phone.. See if you can set it at 1200mhz and 800mhz on performance mode and see where that leads you.

Thanks I will give that a try. to oc really isn't my goal just to improve battery life. Right now seems to be working ok @12k with frequency uv @75-50

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Try using setcpu to throttle your frequencies. If you're having sod that usually means your phone isn't getting the required voltage for your CPU and you're choking your phone.. See if you can set it at 1200mhz and 800mhz on performance mode and see where that leads you.
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SoD actually usually happens at lower frequencies - after all the phone tends to stay down there when the screen is off.
Typically SoD results from too much UV from 100-400. I never was able to go more than -50 mV undervolt, others hit -100.
netarchy's Gingerbread OC config is a bit different, instead of setting modifiers from stock you set absolute voltages. (No binaries have been released of his kernel until more testing is done - but the source is out there!)

You guys are great everyday i just read and read and im amazed by the information and knowledge passed on. I learn something new every few pages. As for my oc/uv prob i've stuck to minimal uv with no oc and screen off profile and everything is working aok i did switch to the b version of infusion so so far so good. Ive read 28 pages today on the new infusion v2b2 for gb and that will be my next conquest. To all thanks a bunch and continue to the good work and especially helping out the new guys like me. And believe it or not im an electrical engineer lol. Again thanks and much appreciation

supadupadoug said:
You guys are great everyday i just read and read and im amazed by the information and knowledge passed on. I learn something new every few pages. As for my oc/uv prob i've stuck to minimal uv with no oc and screen off profile and everything is working aok i did switch to the b version of infusion so so far so good. Ive read 28 pages today on the new infusion v2b2 for gb and that will be my next conquest. To all thanks a bunch and continue to the good work and especially helping out the new guys like me. And believe it or not im an electrical engineer lol. Again thanks and much appreciation
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No prob. Buddy glad to have ya
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SoD actually usually happens at lower frequencies - after all the phone tends to stay down there when the screen is off.
Typically SoD results from too much UV from 100-400. I never was able to go more than -50 mV undervolt, others hit -100.
netarchy's Gingerbread OC config is a bit different, instead of setting modifiers from stock you set absolute voltages. (No binaries have been released of his kernel until more testing is done - but the source is out there!)
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sounds a bit like unhelpfuls kernel from the eclair captivate days. he had absolute voltage values and other freatures. will the gpu clock be configurable? that would be awesome. under clocking the gpu and agressive uv and ucing the cpu could add hours to the battery life. with 2.3.3 you could set the phone to 800mhz and the gpu to 182 or 166mhz could probably give little negative performance in every day use with exceptional battery life.
to the op:
sod can be a problem especially if you overclock. it seems the cpu doesnt like rapid voltage changes. i can uv -200 acriss the board if i dont overclock. if i do im at -150. the 200mhz clock is almost never used but i find if i disable it im more prone to sod presumably because the voltage and frequency jump to 400mhz is too great. it can help if the 100mhz-200mhz clocks have less uv than 400. if you loose stability on 1200 at -100 then maybe set all clocks to -75 cept 100-200mhz which you may set to -50.
this isnt a rule though. you might be able to uv 400-1000 settings quite a bit more than the 1200 setting just if you have sleep of death you generally dont want agressive settings on the 100-200mhz.

Dani897 said:
sounds a bit like unhelpfuls kernel from the eclair captivate days. he had absolute voltage values and other freatures. will the gpu clock be configurable? that would be awesome. under clocking the gpu and agressive uv and ucing the cpu could add hours to the battery life. with 2.3.3 you could set the phone to 800mhz and the gpu to 182 or 166mhz could probably give little negative performance in every day use with exceptional battery life.
to the op:
sod can be a problem especially if you overclock. it seems the cpu doesnt like rapid voltage changes. i can uv -200 acriss the board if i dont overclock. if i do im at -150. the 200mhz clock is almost never used but i find if i disable it im more prone to sod presumably because the voltage and frequency jump to 400mhz is too great. it can help if the 100mhz-200mhz clocks have less uv than 400. if you loose stability on 1200 at -100 then maybe set all clocks to -75 cept 100-200mhz which you may set to -50.
this isnt a rule though. you might be able to uv 400-1000 settings quite a bit more than the 1200 setting just if you have sleep of death you generally dont want agressive settings on the 100-200mhz.
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Not a clue - I only know what netarchy has done, not what he plans on doing.
The architecture of voltage/CPU frequency control is significantly different in GB kernels than Froyo. In general it's cleaner, so a lot of the issues with rapid frequency changes might go away in GB. For example, there's some code in the base kernel that's supposed to facilitate rapid voltage changes (not exactly sure how... the only documentation people outside of Samsung have for the MAX8998 is kernel source code.)

Well guys I have some news. I continued use with set cpu no oc just uv on freq above 624 @ -75 and I kept my screen off profile set to 644 max powersave scaling, and my battery life has been outstanding i check emails frequently been texting all morning and playing wwf and im @ 70% after 4 hrs of use. I know I read % doesn't mean much compared to some volts ratio but I think this is worth mentioning. And for my purposes the goal has been achieved in extending battery life and still having exceptional performance.

Oh and I wanted to add that my phone recharges much faster especially with the screen off with these setting. Maybe nothing new to you but def a plus for a(us) neewb's reading.

should I use f4 phantom or f15c eagle?

To overclock. Which one iis better?
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Ok. I don't know if it was the kernel or what but f4 phantom bricked my touchpad. The screen was blue and I couldn't restart it. It scared me so bad. But it just now began working again and the first thing I did was remove f4.
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Haven't had issues with F4, actually runs both cores full time which is an advantage compared to Warthog. I've never gotten F15 to work correctly.

Running f15 at 1.8 no issues at all..

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Haven't had issues with F4, actually runs both cores full time which is an advantage compared to Warthog. I've never gotten F15 to work correctly.
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isn't that going to eat up your battery?

Not really because it's on demand. At idle both cores run at 400MHz.

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Not really because it's on demand. At idle both cores run at 400MHz.
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Then what does the Warthog kernel do?

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Then what does the Warthog kernel do?
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Warthog idles core 1 at 292 or so and cuts off core 2 until needed. I originally used F15c Eagle to OC and recently switched to Wathog to try it out. Both Oc'd to 1.728Ghz. I have never gotten either of them to activate core 2, even with polling set to 1 sec.

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Warthog idles core 1 at 292 or so and cuts off core 2 until needed. I originally used F15c Eagle to OC and recently switched to Wathog to try it out. Both Oc'd to 1.728Ghz. I have never gotten either of them to activate core 2, even with polling set to 1 sec.
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Warthog activates core 2 when necessary I believe, I've seen it jump to 1.7ghz

JohnnyChuttz said:
Warthog idles core 1 at 292 or so and cuts off core 2 until needed. I originally used F15c Eagle to OC and recently switched to Wathog to try it out. Both Oc'd to 1.728Ghz. I have never gotten either of them to activate core 2, even with polling set to 1 sec.
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polling frequency is not too important. just have to do something like watch a hd video. then go back and check. the number will be back down again. but what u have to do is to click on the graph, and u'll see it peaks to 1.7 when needed.
i've used f15c, and it froze a few times. been using Warthog for a day now, so far no freeze.
havent tried F4 yet. i'm happy with the performance and stability now, so i might not change it unless there's a big difference.

Use f15c ... it works awesome , if you dont see the second core do anything is because the second core is not being used! you can test it openning lets say 3 youtube videos at the same time then go to govnah and you will see second core working! after you install the kernel if second core says n/a just unnistall the kernel reboot and try phantom after you install restar again.. I guess using phantom running both cores at the same time will drecrease battery a little bit.

had problems getting f15 to oc above 1.5, would give me errors if I tried to up it. Switched to warthog and my TP has been 100%. I'm very happy with it. I have not tried F4.

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had problems getting f15 to oc above 1.5, would give me errors if I tried to up it. Switched to warthog and my TP has been 100%. I'm very happy with it. I have not tried F4.
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I tried f4 but I believe since both cores run at full speed all the time battery will decrease faster not sure how much faster , I have tried movies, games, 4 youtube videos at the same time some of multitasking and with 1.7 is more than enough everything runs perfect with f15 .. I would say you are covered with warthog

Here's a test showing that F4 performs the best out of any of the kernels.
http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...k-benchmarking-kernel-fastest-comparison.html

bafare said:
I tried f4 but I believe since both cores run at full speed all the time battery will decrease faster not sure how much faster , I have tried movies, games, 4 youtube videos at the same time some of multitasking and with 1.7 is more than enough everything runs perfect with f15 .. I would say you are covered with warthog
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The only way both cores are at full speed all the time is if you set the governor to performance. I believe it defaults to on demand so it should only only use higher frequencies when necessary.

I prefer F4 Phantom at the moment.

used F4 at 1.8 for few hours now and it works smooth. Difference between F15c and F4 is quite noticeable .

I have updated from uberkernel to f4 @ 1.72 , seems very stable.

Battery life on the f4 kernal is amazing even with performance mode on. I can get about a day and a half with consistant usage (I mainly use it as a pdf viewer for my textbooks, sprinkled in with heavy web usage here and there when I zone out). I can only imagine the battery life with eagle and warthog if I stuck with it longer... 6000mAh battery ftw.
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I agree, the battery life, screen, and processor, are the strong features of this tablet. Even with webOS it's a nice, handy tablet.

[Poll] Which CPU Mode are you using?

Just wanted to get a quick poll from all Infinity users, as to which CPU mode/setting you've found yourself using the most?

Back and forth between on demand and interactive. Usually on demand though.
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Since this is my game and multimedia tab, performance of course! If ac is available so much the better. It cuts through a full hd 1080p movie like butter, this buffalo linkstation NAS is really what will make the 700 shine. Wish Asus upgraded to a dual band wifi though, it's worth it.
Oh yeah, 64g is going to provide that much needed storage space for the next gen of games for the Tegra3.

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Back and forth between on demand and interactive. Usually on demand though.
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I think you're confusing ASUS's power scheme and CPU governors here. The question was about the former.
The powersaving mode makes the CPU run at 500MHz max., balanced - 1500MHz max., performance - 1700MHz max. What governs the actual speeds, however, is the CPU governor.
The governors are a different thing then. Interactive is there by default, performance makes CPU run at the highest clock speed all the time, etc. So you can be in powersaving mode and on the performance governor. You need to be rooted to change the governor.
I think there are some tweaks and settings apart from that, as the difference between 1,5 and 1,7GHz is not that huge, but many benchmark results tend to be considerably higher in performance mode (although some have reported getting higher results on balanced), but I don't know the details.
Going back to OP's question - I think balanced is OK most of the time, as it gives you a good performance:battery life balance.

d14b0ll0s said:
I think you're confusing ASUS's power scheme and CPU governors here. The question was about the former.
The powersaving mode makes the CPU run at 500MHz max., balanced - 1500MHz max., performance - 1700MHz max. What governs the actual speeds, however, is the CPU governor.
The governors are a different thing then. Interactive is there by default, performance makes CPU run at the highest clock speed all the time, etc. So you can be in powersaving mode and on the performance governor. You need to be rooted to change the governor.
I think there are some tweaks and settings apart from that, as the difference between 1,5 and 1,7GHz is not that huge, but many benchmark results tend to be considerably higher in performance mode (although some have reported getting higher results on balanced), but I don't know the details.
Going back to OP's question - I think balanced is OK most of the time, as it gives you a good performance:battery life balance.
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Actually power save mode limits one core to 1 ghz ( on the prime so prolly 1.2 on the infinity and also caps speeds when certain amounts of cores are active. You can still play many games on powersave without a drop in performance though.
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It limits it to 500MHz on my Infinity, so are you guessing or you know it for sure?

Most of the time it's on Balanced, but when I do games or other CPU intensive things I switch it to Performance.

d14b0ll0s said:
It limits it to 500MHz on my Infinity, so are you guessing or you know it for sure?
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cpu spy shows 910 for me while running Jelly Defense in power savings mode. I believe it can go higher than that but I'm not certain for sure.

On balanced usually. I noticed on energy saving mode the colors are different? Or maybe the contrast? Colors on balanced and performance are fine. In fact, I think 1080p movies can be played in power saving mode. For games I use performance mode.
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I use power-saving. Because then I don't need to recharge the pad more than once a week (After 7 days of light usage, the tab had almost 50% battery left and the dock was empty. Awesome!). If I need more oomp, performance mode is dead easy to activate.
This pad is fast anyway

Wow I use the tablet alot more than you, I sometimes charge it twice a day.
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Vo01985 said:
Wow I use the tablet alot more than you, I sometimes charge it twice a day.
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I use it all day. I'm also near a outlet st all times, so I'm always plugged in.

Same here 2 charges a day. Now that I turned on the haptic feedback maybe 3 times a day lmaoo.
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Me on balanced usually.
Seems as though it's good for most common uses.

Haha yeah, but what worries me is that charging a lot won't it degrade the battery quicker?
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Mostly balanced.
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I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html

tf201 said:
I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html
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Good read, thanks.

80% of the time that I'm just taking care of email, browsing the web, installing/updating apps, watching non-hd videos, and the other such, I keep it on balanced.
Gaming, watching HD videos, and other such, I pump it up to performance.

tf201 said:
I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html
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K...after reading that...I'm switching to perf mode and I'm staying on perf in System tuner also...
Not too worried about warming the CPU up a little.
The tablet runs like a 440 hemi with a triple on top in these modes! :fingers-crossed: