Overclock Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Give Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W a speed boost by setting overclock settings in the config.txt document

MAKER Lucy Hattersley Lucy is editor of The MagPi magazine and eggs her little Raspberry Pi to run at ever faster speeds. If only she could run this fast! magpi.cc Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has a powerful Cortex-A53 quad-core processor running at a default speed of 1GHz. It is possible to give this a boost up to 1.2GHz, or even 1.4GHz. The extra speed makes Raspberry Pi OS more snappy, and comes in useful when setting up Zero 2 W projects that are a little more demanding and could use a little push (such as image processing or retro gaming). There is a chance, however, that Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W will start to overheat and throttle back the CPU, keeping it safe but making Raspberry Pi OS slower.…

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