ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:42 pm #14402 Using the latest IDE... compiling and running at 160Mhz works... question is are there any caveats....

Warnings... etc...

- Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:47 am #14800 Maybe I should rephrase my question.

Is it safe to run the ESP8266 at 160Mhz?

- Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:39 am #14834 Yes. This has been discussed in the past. Try searching.

- Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:23 pm #15072 160MHz is a supported clock speed, it's not overclocking. It will just use more power than 80MHz, so no reason to use it unless you need the power for faster transfer speed or more calculations or whatever.