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rpizerow-force-turbo.md

Force turbo speed on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

Some of us still stuck with a first generation Raspberry Pi Zero W really wish it defaulted to its 1 GHz turbo speed, but it doesn't. Under normal circumstances, a Pi Zero W will default to 700 MHz. The fix is simple: add the following line to /boot/config.txt and reboot:

force_turbo=1

That's it.

At least until the Raspberry Pi Zero W v2 is actually shipping...

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