PS3 Is that possible overclock the ps3 in near future?

[Cruslan1]

ARM consoles(PSVITA, Switch etc.) are overclockable. Why Seventh generation(PS3, Xbox 360) consoles are can't overclock after than 10 years?

 

[Naked_Snake1995]

An Overclock isn't possible on these machines, because Overclocking isn't simple as it seems, first the motherboard needs to be prepared for the increase in Clock Speed and Voltage, and the PS3 Motherboards aren't prepared for that task, there aren't enough Power Phases to reflect in that change, and even if there is Overclocking doesn't bring any benifits to a Optimized Hardware, increasing the Clock speed also would break game compatibility, so they are meant to stay that way, also 3.2Ghz CELL Boardband Engine isn't enough?

You are lucky that $ony bumped the CELL Clock from 2.4Ghz in 2004 to 3.2Ghz by the end of 2005,so there is pretty much an overclock.

Overclocking a low powered mobile processor that runs at the same voltage at the cost of battery life, is different from running a full fledged PowerPC Desktop Variant Processor, that requires better power delivery, PSU Stability and adequate cooling, besides PowerPC CPUs aren't exactly known for they're Overclocking capabilities as far as i am aware.

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[R3nEX]

An Overclock isn't possible on these machines, because Overclocking isn't simple as it seems, first the motherboard needs to be prepared for the increase in Clock Speed and Voltage, and the PS3 Motherboards aren't prepared for that task, there aren't enough Power Phases to reflect in that change, and even if there is Overclocking doesn't bring any benifits to a Optimized Hardware, increasing the Clock speed also would break game compatibility, so they are meant to stay that way, also 3.2Ghz CELL Boardband Engine isn't enough?

You are lucky that $ony bumped the CELL Clock from 2.4Ghz in 2004 to 3.2Ghz by the end of 2005,so there is pretty much an overclock.

Overclocking a low powered mobile processor that runs at the same voltage at the cost of battery life, is different from running a full fledged PowerPC Desktop Variant Processor, that requires better power delivery, PSU Stability and adequate cooling, besides PowerPC CPUs aren't exactly known for they're Overclocking capabilities as far as i am aware.

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I come from the future to say that you were wrong

 

[bguerville]

I come from the future to say that you were wrong

1. You necroed a thread that's been dead for 3 years just for the sake of being cynical?
2. Should we assume that you are using an overclocked cellBE (the CPU, not to be confused with the RSX which is a GPU)? If so, do you mind sharing your patches and stats regarding speed and temps?
3. At this stage, nobody can affirm that the RSX overclocks are entirely safe from a hardware point of view, not on the short term, not on the long term, because to my knowledge there are no stats/data publicly available to make such an assertion.

 

[R3nEX]

1. You necroed a thread that's been dead for 3 years just for the sake of being cynical?
2. Should we assume that you are using an overclocked cellBE (the CPU, not to be confused with the RSX which is a GPU)? If so, do you mind sharing your patches and stats regarding speed and temps?
3. At this stage, nobody can affirm that the RSX overclocks are entirely safe from a hardware point of view, not on the short term, not on the long term, because to my knowledge there are no stats/data publicly available to make such an assertion.

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe

 

[bguerville]

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe

1. Please, don't do it again.
2. That was a cynical question just in case you had not noticed.
3. Not maybe, it's a certainty, chances are that using an overclock will impact the life expectancy of the chip or other components due to the added thermal stress. Users have reported a 10C rise in certain games, it's not exactly a small temp increase.
We may never know however what the real impact is going to be, PS3 hardware is old already, naturally more and more RSX chips will inevitably die and it will be difficult to pin the responsibility on one thing or another.