Chinese retailers selling overclocked Xiaomi Mi 5 variants

Posted on by Jules Wang

No matter which Xiaomi Mi 5 you buy, you’re getting the same Snapdragon 820 as anyone else with an Adreno 530 GPU. The same 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM are there.But man, can things get different.At least one online retailer in China is selling a modified version of the Mi 5. The original Mi 5’s Snap 820 was apparently hard-limited at 1.8GHz while this version brings it up to its max potential of 2.15GHz. The Adreno 530 is stepped up from 510MHz to 624MHz. Lastly, RAM speeds jump ...

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Before and after: an overclocked Galaxy Note II (Video)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

The Galaxy Note II was once one of the fastest and most powerful smartphones on the market. But with newer Snapdragon chipsets and faster clock speeds, the Note II is begging to show its age, if only a tiny bit. The 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 chip is definitely no slouch, but it isn’t quite as snappy or powerful as more modern chips. To speed things up, nothing ever works quite as well as wiping the phone and starting from scratch. As you load more games and

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Before and after: an overclocked Nexus 4 (Video)

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The Nexus 4 is the go-to device for many developers. Offering the purest Google experience and literally built for developers, it’s the most vanilla Android experience possible. It’s lightweight and comes with no bloatware. There’s practically nothing to over-encumber  the device straight out of the box. That said, the handset is beginning to age as faster, more efficient chipsets arrive. It just doesn’t feel as fast as it once did. ...

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Before and After: An Overclocked HTC One (Video)

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The HTC One may be one of the fastest clocked smartphones on the market. It’s powered by a 1.7Ghz quad-core Snapdragon 600 chipset that puts last year’s chips to shame. But for some, fast simply isn’t enough. Some need more power, more speed, more gigahertz. Some need an overclocked HTC One. Fortunately, that’s not out of the question, and enabling it is quite simple. All you need is the right kernel, a little know-how and a custom recovery. Flash away and ...

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