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Ashwin Pajankar, Raspberry Pi Supercomputing and Scientific Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2878-4_7

7. Overclocking Raspberry Pi

Ashwin Pajankar

(1)Nashik, Maharashtra, India

In this chapter, we will learn how to increase the computing power of the various models of Raspberry Pi by overclocking the various components of this amazing little computer. We will study how to overclock through raspi-config and by altering the contents of config.txt.

Overclocking means to configure a computer’s hardware parts to run at a faster rate than what was certified by the original manufacturer. The rate at which the part operates is generally specified in terms of clock frequency like MHz, GHz, etc. Usually the operating voltage of the ...

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