AC68P Overclocking

[marcusb]

Has anyone overclocked the AC68P? I have mine currently at 1400 with the temps going between 71 and 73C. Prior to the overclocking it was between 71-72 so no real change.

 

[ngerasimatos]

Has anyone overclocked the AC68P? I have mine currently at 1400 with the temps going between 71 and 73C. Prior to the overclocking it was between 71-72 so no real change.

I tinkered with overclocking and for my use i saw no real noticeable improvements. except in east/west traffic and VPN. Both of which i rarely use.

 

[marcusb]

I agree the benefit may not be obvious. I do use VPN however. I'm leaving it at 1400 since there seems to be no harm in doing so.

 

[Luboknok]

I'm having trouble OCing my ac68p. After set clkfreq, " nvram get clkfreq" returns "1400,800" as it should, but "cat /proc/cpuinfo" returns bogomips of 1998.84 instead of the expected 2798.38.

Also it seems nvram commit doesn't stick and it reverts to default after reboot.

Running latest Merlin beta 382.2_beta2

 

[ColinTaylor]

Also it seems nvram commit doesn't stick and it reverts to default after reboot.

Read the more recent posts about overclocking. Later firmwares were changed to stop overclocking.

 

[Luboknok]

Read the more recent posts about overclocking. Later firmwares were changed to stop overclocking.

Oddly enough after waking up this AM the router autorebooted (set to every night). Now I am seeing 2798.38 BOGOMIPS BUT only 1000 MHZ CPU.

So using the latest beta firmaware 382.2_beta2 I seem to have a full persistent OC. I only lose it and revert to 1998.84 bogomips if I soft reboot the router. If I hard boot or allow it to auto reboot overnight it it returns 2798.38 BOGOMIPS from cat /proc/cpuinfo.

Very strange.