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we already know the HTC One is a fast phone but do you wish it were just a little faster I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is a before and after with an overclocked HTC one powered by 1.7 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 600 chipset the HTC One is already one of the fastest and most powerful smartphones ever today we have reviewed the HTC One twice in both reviews it scored an impressive nine point two and eight point eight out of ten performance ratings were great as well the global version consistently scored over 12,000 and quadrant standard as did the Sprint model it averaged 2640 in Geekbench and 959 milliseconds in the SunSpider JavaScript test it maintains solid performance through just about anything you throw at it it cuts through both lightweight everyday tasks and intensive multitasking or gaming without skipping a beat its performance was off the charts at least in comparison to existing smartphones but for some that just isn't enough one of the few ways you can make your Android smart phone faster than it is out of the box is by overclocking the processor this is done by flashing a custom kernel which enables the user to set the clock speed of the CPU to a faster speed than it was originally intended take a phone that has a 1.5 gigahertz processor - 1.6 or 1.7 gigahertz take a phone like the HTC One with a 1.7 gigahertz processor - 2 gigahertz and beyond it's a way to push your phone to its absolute limit for better everyday performance better benchmark scores and of course bragging rights if that's your sort of thing for a high-profile device like the HTC One there are plenty of custom kernels to choose from the kernel we chose for this video is called elemental X by floor tube and it's linked in the description below and installation is quite simple download the zip file move it to the phone's internal storage boot to recovery and flash the zip just like you would for any other custom ROM or mod then reboot twice not every kernel flash is the same elemental X uses the aroma installer which lets you customize the flash process and tweak the kernel to your specs the first time through we felt bold and flash the maximum clock speed 2.16 gigahertz but we quickly ran into trouble we and just one full benchmark which wasn't all that great just over 22,000 and n22 so we started another the foam got no more than 10 seconds into the test before it reached a temperature of over 110 degrees Fahrenheit and shut down it wouldn't take a charge and no amount of pressing the power button helped it finally turned back on after two nail-biting hours we strongly advised caution when dealing with low-level system files take some precautions make backups of everything make sure you know what you're doing and read into the files you're downloading check what others are saying about it in the forum thread and follow instructions to a tee the second time around we chose a clock speed just shy of two gigahertz and overclocked the GPU as well at first the differences aren't all that noticeable the phone was fast to begin with so noticing a difference takes a keen eye and even side-by-side it's not easy to tell which is faster applications open almost instantly and jumping between recent apps happens in a blur it's difficult to discern but we can't help but feel the overclocked one just felt a half step faster than the stock one in every little action it just felt a tad more zippy where you see the biggest improvement is in synthetic benchmark tests the stock one had a quadrant standard average of 12,000 compared to the 13,000 average after overclocking and when the stock clock speed the one scored an average of 25,000 in the antutu test versus the 26,000 average after overclocking - just shy of two gigahertz most will never notice the difference which is why overclocking isn't for everyone and remember we didn't choose the highest clock speed for this video if you take the time to tinker with the settings in different configurations the benefits will be much more notable but it's not always worth having the fastest phone when it gets hot enough to fry eggs or worse turns itself into a very expensive paperweight that's going to do it for this video so if you liked it give it a thumbs up and click the subscribe button below follow us in all the typical places Twitter Google+ and Facebook and pocket now I'm Taylor Martin and you can find me on twitter at cass protection I'll see you next time