Nice work. What does the inside look like? It still must have been very delicate soldering. You might be able to get even high speeds by adding wait states, however the clock speed tester doesn't compensate for wait states. Also, the wait states will make the calculator seem a little slower. Depending on the hardware, they may only be needed for flash, so the OS would be slower, but assembly RAM programs might run fast. Regardless, we're seeing more and more people reporting that the calculator handles well 20 MHz, so I wonder why TI didn't give the TI-84+CSE that little extra speed.

The TA1 ASIC is very different. It has fewer pins (each pin on a chip costs about a penny, so reducing pin count saves money), so the pinout is totally different. So you might well have hacked the wrong circuit. (Unless you already did the following:) You need to look for a similar arrangement of a capacitor and pair of resistors to hack.

That's really amazing...! The first CSE overclock, and it needs it desperately! I'd want to try this, but I wouldn't stand a pot sticking out the top, I'd want it simply OCed to the highest it can while being known to be stable, permanently.

But wow, you could've possibly bricked your CSE like your 84+ x.x

Yeah, I probably just got lucky. When I first removed the resistor on R07D, I soldered a replacement resistor (with a guessed resistance value that I thought would give me 21mhz), put the calculator back together, and was very surprised when the test printed out 30mhz. The text was very gargled coming from the program. However, the OS still worked nicely and it was the fastest I'd seen a t84 go. At first I thought it might've been a miscalculation from the program, but running my (non bricked at the time) t84+ side to side proved that my SE most likely really was rocking 30mhz. Exciting!

I'll try to get pictures as soon as possible, too! And good luck with your calc.

Thanks! I'll be honest, the inside does look a little messy. I accidentally broke off one of the solder pads from the original resistor and had to very carefully solder the wire to the remaining material. It wasn't very stable at all, so I put a dab of hot glue on there to ensure nothing would budge. Nothing too bad though, and I'm sure many will find it fairly easy to do. I would get pictures, but I don't want to be embarrassed...

That sounds like an interesting idea. I'm not sure I'll be able to implement it though, so I'll have to leave it up to one of you guys.

I can confirm that it runs very well at 20-21mhz, I really wish TI treated the CSE better. ez80? Better asic for higher clock speeds? Dunno, anything would've been good.

Looking at my t84+ board in front of me, the similar circuit seems to be in the same relative location, and the capacitor and resistors are even named the same ("C05D", "R08D", "R07D"), the only difference being that the asic pins corresponding to them are on the side instead of the bottom. I knocked off R07D just like I did with the others, soldered on a new resistor, and booted it. It showed the "RAM Cleared" screen like normal but froze when it completed the operation. Afterwards I tried putting back the original resistor value of ~1100 ohms and it didn't work either, so I'm lost. Maybe I accidentally messed up another circuit. I'll look at it again later.

Thank you! You don't have to use a potentiometer, any resistor will do. Then it'll look just like any other CSE, but 10x awesomer.

Don't worry about my bricked calculators, they all died for a good cause.

I recently overclocked a "new" TI-83 Plus Silver Edition for the third-prize winner in Cemetech Contest #12, CalcGuy123. The soldering came out better on this than on my first TI-83+SE overclocking: I didn't rip off any pads during the soldering process, so the four blue 30-guage wires that you see are soldered directly to the pads for the missing SMT resistors. I found that the ASIC was a little more sensitive to the resistor values than I remember: 2.6K and 2.4K produce the speeds shown, which are at the very upper end of what the ASIC can support while remaining stable. However, trying values like 1K with 2.4K, while producing 5.9MHz and 16.8MHz for the slower speeds, made the calculator immediately crash at whatever the two faster speeds were.

Build games on this!!! We can compare speeds between my calc and your OC-ed one if you want! Do this on a CE to. Would make the ez80 a rockstar!

How is it possible to that?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6xUgqjt8Y

Thanks for request, need the answer for speeding up my TI for the Final Exam of Highschool in Germany

Fossil

EDIT:
For the TI 84+ it works like that:

Code:


I don't understand the commands, so maybe you could modify the code for the Ti 83+ SE
(The Origin program is by Dr Dnar)

Edit by PT_: please don't double-post within some hours.

That code appears to be for the newer TI-84+ CE, which has a different CPU from the older TI-83+, TI-83+ SE, TI-84+, TI-84+ SE, and TI-84+ CSE. It will not work on these older calculators. These calculators can only be overclocked with serious hardware modifications.

Also, to be pendantic: that code does not overclock the TI-84+ CE. The CPU in the TI-84+ CE is relatively quick. The performance bottleneck is memory access. That code improves the speed of flash memory access.

I had a conversation with geekboy (producer of the video),
he told me he did some hardware modification to, so it is probably the guide above.

Thanks a lot for quick answering

Hello! I tried my hand at overclocking my 84+. Inspired by LTT’s video, I replaced R07D with a potentiometer. (I don’t have any spare resistors on hand so they’re out of the question). However, the speed test still gave me results of 15 MHz. I tried switching terminals of the pot numerous times and even tried a different pot. My calc has the TA1 ASIC. I don’t know what exact revision but the PROD # is 0A-3-02-37. What might I be doing wrong?

Have you tried turning it? I'm not sure what else to suggest without any good pictures.

Instead of using a soldering iron and screwing with tiny surface-mount components, you can just use a pencil.

I was messing with the wrong resistor LOL
The calculator still works perfectly without C30A
I use the pencil method on R08D to make the “slow mode” faster and put a trimpot on R07D


I am sorry for the inconvenience