I was browsing ticalc's site, and found a section on "overclocking your calculator" to dramatically increase the speed. I was curious, has anybody here ever done that with their calculator? If so, how did it turn out?

http://www.ticalc.org/hardware/overclocking/

I don't think many people have (at least I don't think so). It's a really risky thing to do, especially if you don't know what you're doing. I personally don't see any point in it though.

Apparently the 83+SE, 84+, and 84+SE 15MHz mode is already overclocking, just officially by TI.

Really? I've never heard of that. I just always figured that it was that it was better software that was causing the speed boosts.

What exactly is the whole 8Mhz, 15Mhz, etc. thing? I can't seem to figure out what you guys are talking about.

Ah, ok. Thanks.

if Geocities still existed outside Japan, I would show you pics of Jim_e's modified calculator. He had a backlight and all. There's also another topic here called Glow In The Calc, involving calc modding. It used to be much more common to mod your calc back in the '90s and 2000s, though. I remember stuff such as the ability to use AA batteries instead of the expensive AAA's and power supplies, and even adding more RAM to your calc (or archive), altough the later was unstable, IIRC, and unreliable since if you made programs requiring that many RAM, everyone who wanted to use them had to modify their calc

Actually, certain methods, such as increasing the calc archive (to 229 KB, specifically) requires no modding, but the way it has to be done seems quite hackish, plus on the french site in question they mention the calc becomes unstable with it if you garbage collect and you can't send apps. For other files you can only send one at once. Also this tutorial was written back before Windows XP came out, I think, so idk if it works with newer link softwares. I think for example TI Connect will not work.

True. Personally, if you are not good with your hands that that kind of stuff or dislike manipulating electronic, wires, do soldering, etc, it's best you don't do it.

I like the idea of a backlight, but I doubt if I'd do it.  I think I'd mess something up (or drop a chair on it), so I don't think I'll mod my calc.   There are some really cool ideas out there, though!

I also (remember this is my opinion) would not overclock my calc, because then all regular programs run too fast.