Raspberry Pi overclocking made easy You can overclock the Raspberry Pi by setting a few parameters in /boot/config.txt . See http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt for details. In the new Raspbian distribution the overclocking has been really easy: the config tool "raspi-config" has an overclock menu item. By selecting that menu item, you can select which overclock config you want. You can monitor at which speed the CPU is running by: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 900000 pi@raspberrypi ~ $ The CPU frequency will only be higher when it needs to. See screenshots below. download file now