Many pages about the TI-83+ overclocking mention to replace the C11 capacitor.


But what is rarely stated, is that it is only for very old TI-83+ with the "TI-83(F)" or "9TA837MB-30B" PCB.
The ASIC used is the TI REF 9815455.
Known hardware revisions: A, D.
Date: 1999-2001.
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PLUS_I-0799_PCB.jpg

But since then, the TI-83+ PCB has completly changed.


There are:

* The "TI-83(A)", "9TA83ASMB-31G" or "TG0837CRMB-2422" PCB.
The ASIC used is the Inventec 6SI837
Hardware revisions: C, D, E.
Date: 2002-2004.
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PLUS_S0402C_PCB.jpg
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PLUS_S0504E_PCB.jpg

* The "GARGOYLE-C08" PCB.
The ASIC and hardware revisions are unknown.
Date: 2007.
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PLUS_TBL_PCB.jpg

* The "TG73-83MB-2430" or "TG73-83MB-2432" PCB.
The ASIC used is the TI-REF TI-738X (220C080FG102)
Hardware revisions: K, L
Date: 2007-2008
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PLUS_FR07_BL_PCB.jpg
http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/Images/TI-83PlusFR_PCB.jpg


Does anybody know if the capacitor was ever found for the recent TI-83+ PCB ?
It's quite hard to find the informations on Google... Most of the returned URL are about the basic TI-83 overclocking...

This information could be usefull for the TI-73, TI-82Stats.fr and TI-76.fr too, as they are sharing the same ASIC.

If I were you I would be careful with this.

The topic is not about if it is "good" or "bad" to overclock.


I think it's much worse to have those outdated informations about TI-83+ overclocking on the web.
Anybody trying to use them to overclock a TI-83+ manufactured since 2002, is certainly going to kill its calculator.

We should provide the best overclocking informations to the readers, so that they can decide on their own, and then perform the overclock if they want to but in the safest way.

Hiding or not updating informations is just what TI is doing to forbid us to do some things...


Thanks you for reading.


Edit: did you notice it was a fake TIcalc news ? . . .