Kratos Pushes Full PSP Power
Until just recently, Sony put a cap on the PSP’s processor at 266Mhz. Now they lifted the cap and are allowing developers to harness the true horsepower of the shiny little black beast. The first developer to take advantage of 333Mhz worth of processing power is Ready at Dawn, makers of the new portable God of War title, Chains of Olympus. They confirmed it with a post on the PlayStation Blog.
"I hear that the official news about unlocking the PSP processor speed is out there. Many people are asking if God of War: Chains of Olympus is going to take advantage of this. The short answer is yes," said Cory Barlog, creative director on the title.
Well, that just sweetened the deal for me. I can’t wait to see what the PSP can do with 20% extra processing power. I’ve already been impressed with what I have seen from the system, and now it will only get better.
Kratos to Wield Extra PSP Power[Next Generation]
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Posted to Video Games on 26 June 2007
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Translation: "Well, all the first-gen PSPs are out of warranty now, so we don't really care if they burn out their CPUs...."
How could this "burn out" the cpu? It's not like this is overclocking it or anything. It's just removing the cap.
I'm eager to see how this new power will be utilized by developers. Many of the games on the PSP have been quite impressive even with the cap. My only worry is the hit on battery life this will have. Perhaps they will come out with a higher-capacity (but same-sized) battery soon.
I thought that the reason they hadn't been running it above about 233MHz was because the PSP became unstable after that (judging by comments on forums and the sites of various homebrew software), which to me says overclocking.
I mean, don't motherboards that let you overclock just "remove the cap" and let you take your chances?
I'm not sure; I hadn't heard any of those instability rumors. If that's true, and this does put a strain on the machine that the system was never meant to withstand, then that sucks.
I suppose technically you are correct with the motherboard analogy. However, the difference here is that Sony are the ones removing the cap from their own hardware. This would lead me to believe they also had the foresight to build the hardware with the capability to handle the higher load. At least I hope they did!