"HOT" Dreamcast

[Barrys_Bapz]

"The processor has been turnned up to make the graphics , game play etc faster they called them hot because they used to over heat, thats why there is a massive fan installed in the side of it along with the standard fan"



Dose this work and how is it done? SNES on this one may be worth talking about, huh.

Here's the link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/sega-dream-cast-h ... 335ba64a32

[Anthony817]

Well the proper English term for this is "Overclocking" ,as you are tuning the graphics processer to run the games faster.

When I overclocked my PC gfx card, it almost burned op, but it recoverd and was working fine later down the road.

I DO NOT recommend doing this unless you are an experienced professional. You basicaly lift up one of the pins on the chip to overclock it.

I can not think of where I found the schematics diagram, but it would be good to pay somebody to do it for you.

I broke my last PSP Slim battery doing a simmaler procedure, trying to make a pandora battery before, and I fucked it all up. I was supposed to cut one pin on a chip inside the cover of the battery, so I could put the system in service mode and hack the firmware.

Just don't do anything to brick your DC.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

At DC-dev (website down?) they had a guide one how to install a fan, but it was smaller then the one you showed in the pic.
As long the enviroment is clean and fresh then a simple fan will do, a big fan is better but not necessary.

Some games will benefit from this and you must make sure you will benefit otherwhise this will do more harm then good.
Games like UT (some big maps) or revolt (the game mode where you have lot's of small cars competing against you) may cut down the framerate and overclocking is a good way to minimize this.

[Barrys_Bapz]

Do you think emulation may run smoother on this console opposed to other non-hot Dreamcast's?

[TuxTheWise]

Do you think emulation may run smoother on this console opposed to other non-hot Dreamcast's?

For sure. I've read someone talking that DreamSNES run better but not perfect. I don't know how much he overclocked though.

[dirtydav]

I would take the cover off it and put a fan on it.
I wonder how much improvement it would bring to UT.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

To UT? in small maps, none, in maps where the draw distance is gigantic (face maps for example) then it might help a little.