Netgear R7000 Overclock on Build 26854?

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johnathonm
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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 22:20    Post subject: Netgear R7000 Overclock on Build 26854? Reply with quote
Hi,

I am trying to overclock my Netgear R7000. I have done this on dozens of previous builds through the following method:

Telnet/SSH into 192.168.1.1
Login
nvram set clkfreq=1400,800
nvram commit
nvram reboot

Upon reboot going in and checking both the Status page and through nvram show | grep clkfreq it would display the 1400 clock. Now, it seems the stock 1000 clk "sticks".

Anyone have any ideas? Just curious as I haven't seen this behavior before.

Thanks,

J
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johnathonm
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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 22:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have also tried resetting to defaults. I also tried a separate instance of erase nvram through - to no avail. The setting will not "stick".

Thanks,

J
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 2:19    Post subject: Re: Netgear R7000 Overclock on Build 26854? Reply with quote
johnathonm wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to overclock my Netgear R7000. I have done this on dozens of previous builds through the following method:

Telnet/SSH into 192.168.1.1
Login
nvram set clkfreq=1400,800
nvram commit
nvram reboot

Upon reboot going in and checking both the Status page and through nvram show | grep clkfreq it would display the 1400 clock. Now, it seems the stock 1000 clk "sticks".

Anyone have any ideas? Just curious as I haven't seen this behavior before.

Thanks,

J

When the router reboots, the nvram settings you made are being over written by the web GUI overclocking field on the Administration ->> Management web page.
First, set the overclocking field to 1400 MHz and let the router reboot. Then enter nvram get clkfreq and you should see something like this:
root@NetR7000RT2:~# nvram get clkfreq
1400

Notice that only the CPU frequency got set while the DDR memory clock value is missing; this is a small bug which causes the DDR clock to default to 400 MHz at boot time.
You can fix this by entering:
root@NetR7000RT2:~# nvram set clkfreq=1400,800
root@NetR7000RT2:~# nvram commit
root@NetR7000RT2:~# reboot

Please don't try setting the CPU clock to 1600 MHz as the firmware boot-up will fail and will require a serial cable to fix. Also some CPU chips will randomly fail while running at 1400 MHz.

- Magnetron1.1
johnathonm
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 18:08    Post subject: Reply with quote
Awesome,

I appreciate you taking the time to write out what was going on and a work around. I will try it later today.

-J
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