Modder overclocks Motorola Xoom to 1.5GHz

One of the hot new tablets of CES was the Motorola Xoom, not because of its fancy name but rather the fact it is running the nVidia Tegra 2 chip.  The GPU and processor combo promises to deliver excellent performance but appears to only be clocked in at 1Ghz.

At least from the factory

Motorola's Xoom tablet is equipped with Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual core chip that plods along at 1GHz. It's not that the chip is particularly slow but a chap at Xda Developers Forum managed to bump up the clock speed by 50 per cent and keep it stable enough to run a suite of benchmarks.

The procedure to overclock a Xoom isn't quite as easy as jumping into the BIOS and fiddling with a couple of settings, however it's far from rocket science. After unlocking the Xoom's bootloader and rooting the device, it's a matter of loading a new boot image with a kernel that supports the higher chip frequencies.

That is a good gain considering the mobile nature of the Xoom and Tegra 2.

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