How to Safely Overclock Raspberry Pi 4 – Guide
Windows 11 runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 because of a dedicated community of developers who create new images and updates for the Raspberry Pi at breakneck speed. This is an achievement, considering that the Raspberry Pi 4’s specs are far below the recommended requirements for the latest Microsoft operating system.
Windows 11 on Pi 4 is an enjoyable experience. Of course, there are some bumps and pauses, but we can smooth them out by using an SSD as a boot drive. But what if we want to extract every last drop of performance from Windows 11? To do this, we need to overclock our Raspberry Pi 4, not via the BIOS, but with Windows on Raspberry Control Panel developed by Dahan. This easy-to-use tool automates many of the adjustments needed to safely overclock a Raspberry Pi 4. ..
Overclock the Raspberry Pi 4 to 2 GHz with Raspberry Pi OS
Then, open a new Terminal window and run the command below to install the package: sudo apt install -y python3-pip
sudo apt update
After doing that, we need to get the latest Raspberry Pi firmware so we can overclock the Raspberry Pi.
If Terminal reads – “rpi update is not latest version”, you may need to reboot your Raspberry Pi by typing the command – sudo reboot.
1.5GHz to 2GHz sudo geany /boot/config.txt
Now a Geany window will open. Here, scroll down and search for #arm_freq = 800. We need to change this rule. First remove the # from the line to enable the command. Then change the armfreq value from 800 to 2000 . This is the step that will increase the clock speed of the Raspberry Pi 4 card to 2GHz. You will also need to add a line to increase the voltage, which I have shown below. Basically, the configuration file should look like this.over_voltage = 6arm_freq = 2000 ..
If you want to overclock the graphics card, also add the line below to the configuration file. Now save the file and close Geany editor. over_voltage = 6arm_freq = 2000gpu_freq = 750
To restart your Raspberry Pi and get it running with the overclocked CPU and GPU, follow these steps: First, power off your Raspberry Pi. Next, hold down the power button for about 10 seconds to turn off your Raspberry Pi. Then, wait a few minutes until your Raspberry Pi has completely shut down. Finally, press and hold the reset button for about 10 seconds to start up your Raspberry Pi again. In Terminal, run the commands below to see how much faster your CPU is running now: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats_interval This will show you how often your CPU is running at its fastest speed. $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor This will show you which scaling governor is currently in use on your Raspberry Pi. ..
If your Raspberry Pi doesn’t boot after overclocking, follow our solution in the next section. ..
To measure the clock speed and temperature on an ARM watch, use: watch -n1 vcgencmd measure_clock armwatch -n1 vcgencmd measure_temp ..
sysbench -v 2 GHz
sysbench –num-threads = 8 –test = cpu –cpu-max- prime = 20000
The Raspberry Pi 4 sysbench test results show that it is possible to overclock the 1.5GHz Raspberry Pi 4 to a 2GHz version, resulting in a significant performance increase. Additionally, when exporting videos and playing them in the browser, you will find a big difference in performance between the overclocked and un overclocked GPUs.
If you want to disable overclocking on the Raspberry Pi, you can open the config file with geany and change the values to 0.
Raspberry Pi at its default clock speed after a reboot
Final note
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