# Upgraded my uconsole and it’s slower than it was previously

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455>\
**Category:** uConsole\
**Tags:** tinkering, uconsole, cm5, hacker-gadgets\
**Created:** [October 4, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455 "2026-10-04T03:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![simpsonq0628-stack](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/simpsonq0628-stack/32/17019_2.png) [@simpsonq0628-stack](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/simpsonq0628-stack)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455/1 "2026-10-04T03:22:54Z")

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I upgraded my uconsole to a cm5 lite 4gb from a cm4 also got the adapter board and the battery adapter with nvme slot using a gen 3 nvme ssd and it is slower than when I had a cm4 with a sd card. Any help or wisdom would be appreciated.

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**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455/2 "2026-10-04T09:42:43Z")

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> [@simpsonq0628-stack](#):
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> it is slower

what do you mean? slower UI, slower file operations, slower booting time?

can you please run in the console `free -wh` and put there result?

is it hot?

Did you try to underclock your cm5? Do you have in your `/boot/firmware/config.txt` something like it:  
_( [Overclocking and \*Underclocking\* the Raspberry Pi 5 - Jeff Geerling](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/overclocking-and-underclocking-raspberry-pi-5/) )_

```auto
# Tell the DVFS algorithm to increase voltage by this amount (in µV; default 0).
# IMPORTANT: See note below
over_voltage_delta=50000

# Set the Arm A76 core frequency (in MHz; default 2400).
arm_freq=3000

# Set the VideoCore VII core frequency (in MHz; default 800).
gpu_freq=1000

```

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**Author:** ![simpsonq0628-stack](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/simpsonq0628-stack/32/17019_2.png) [@simpsonq0628-stack](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/simpsonq0628-stack)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455/3 "2026-10-04T13:51:00Z")

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Alright so I think I made a mistake when I was setting it up when you boot for the first time I was letting it update the image I got from Rex and updating it to something that wasn’t truly optimized for the uconsole so I tried doing with out that and it seems like it’s running as I would expect sorry for the confusion

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**Author:** ![simpsonq0628-stack](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/simpsonq0628-stack/32/17019_2.png) [@simpsonq0628-stack](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/simpsonq0628-stack)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/upgraded-my-uconsole-and-it-s-slower-than-it-was-previously/23455/4 "2026-10-04T13:56:51Z")

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But to try to answer you the best I can it wasn’t running hot only around 40 degrees. everything was slower opening any app took forever.