readme.md

Easy Raspberry Pi overclocking

I created these scripts for easier overclocking of a Raspberry Pi 3.

Who is this for? If you just want to overclock your system for one session (say, for faster emulation) and then want to revert to the previous (standard) CPU settings easily after you are done, this is for you.

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WARNING⚠️

This script was only tested on a Raspberry Pi 3. Please proceed with caution. The developer takes no responsability for any damage caused by using this script on your hardware.

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Quickstart

1. Clone this repo and cd to the cloned dir:

cd raspberry-pi-overclocking

2. Edit config_overclock.txt with your overclocking settings. I took mine from the suggested Nintendo 64 RetroPie optimization settings

3. To enable overclocking, issue the command

./overclock.sh

This will copy config_overclock.txt to /boot/config.txt and reboot the system

4. To revert to factory default settings after you are done overclocking, issue the command

./normal.sh

References

• Suggested Nintendo 64 RetroPie optimization settings
• Raspberry Pi overclocking
• Comparison of normal vs overclocked RetroPie running N64 games: YouTube video (there are several like this)

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If you have suggestions of improvements, by all means please contribute with a pull request! :)

Visit the author's web page and/or follow him on twitter (@nemmen).