Question Netgear R7000 MOD~DD-WRT~Broadcom BCM4709 Overclocked to 5,000MHz DRAM 1,600~SwapSpace for dd-wrt on usb 3.0 Entware ( Optware ) ~ NetData~ Suricata 7

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olikdenstien187

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This is the MOD you all have been waiting for, unlike ANYTHING you have ever seen before....Guaranteed
Lets start from the Beginning, I have been wanting to do this for over 5 years !
and I figured out a way to do this for under $40 dollars US
 
olikdenstien187 said:
This is the MOD you all have been waiting for, unlike ANYTHING you have ever seen before....Guaranteed
Lets start from the Beginning, I have been wanting to do this for over 5 years !
and I figured out a way to do this for under $40 dollars US
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<Mod Edit - Removed self promotion links>
this is the real deal, I am Running Suricata7 Now at 5GHz and my DRAM is 1,600MHz and things are HEATING UP !! :)
 
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You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?

nvram get clkfreq shows whatever speed you set but not the actual speed, if Suricata7 uses that.

To get the actual CPU speed, it's cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS which is an actual benchmark, or you would know right away if very CPU-limited apps such as openVPN or WireGuard suddenly ran 5x as fast.

The 40nm BCM4709A0 overclocks quite well, so without voltage mods, just about every example will overclock 20% to 1200MHz and if you are lucky 1400MHz but only a very few will run at 1600MHz. Intel was unable to get the Pentium 4 to run stable at 4GHz even when blowing 2x as much power through it, and you believe somehow the standard Broadcom reference design that Netgear chose just happens to be overprovisioned with enough excess VRM capacity to support 500% overclocking? I should point out that 56°C is a perfectly normal CPU temperature for a stock R7000 at stock 1000MHz with stock cooling... which is a giant aluminum plate unfortunately connected to the CPU through 4mm worth of thermal pads.

In the 11 years that router has been out, I have never seen anyone show proof of the RAM successfully running at even 1066MHz either, over the factory-stock 800MHz that its DDR3-1600 CL11 K4B2G1646E-BCK0 chip runs at. Don't you think if it would actually run at DDR3-3200 CL11 back in 2013 that Samsung might've charged a bit more for it?

We often see people who similarly claim sky-high overclocks for their GPU, only to find they never actually boost that high because the selected clocks go right off the voltage table so are ignored. You can set whatever you'd like but the hardware must actually do it, to be of any use.
 
BFG-9000 said:
You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?

nvram get clkfreq shows whatever speed you set but not the actual speed, if Suricata7 uses that.

To get the actual CPU speed, it's cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS which is an actual benchmark, or you would know right away if very CPU-limited apps such as openVPN or WireGuard suddenly ran 5x as fast.

The 40nm BCM4709A0 overclocks quite well, so without voltage mods, just about every example will overclock 20% to 1200MHz and if you are lucky 1400MHz but only a very few will run at 1600MHz. Intel was unable to get the Pentium 4 to run stable at 4GHz even when blowing 2x as much power through it, and you believe somehow the standard Broadcom reference design that Netgear chose just happens to be overprovisioned with enough excess VRM capacity to support 500% overclocking? I should point out that 56°C is a perfectly normal CPU temperature for a stock R7000 at stock 1000MHz with stock cooling... which is a giant aluminum plate unfortunately connected to the CPU through 4mm worth of thermal pads.

In the 11 years that router has been out, I have never seen anyone show proof of the RAM successfully running at even 1066MHz either, over the factory-stock 800MHz that its DDR3-1600 CL11 K4B2G1646E-BCK0 chip runs at. Don't you think if it would actually run at DDR3-3200 CL11 back in 2013 that Samsung might've charged a bit more for it?

We often see people who similarly claim sky-high overclocks for their GPU, only to find they never actually boost that high because the selected clocks go right off the voltage table so are ignored. You can set whatever you'd like but the hardware must actually do it, to be of any use.
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Thank you, I am still doing a lot of testing !
that really will be the meat of this because we both know the chip has never been cooled like this before.
I will check your commands, you are the guy I have been looking for, Please send me All cpu and memory commands ie stats, speed tests, etc that you know regarding this cpu and dd-wrt and I will post !


BusyBox v1.28.4 (2018-05-31 10:58:02 CEST) built-in shell (ash)

root@DD-WRT:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS
BogoMIPS : 1594.16
BogoMIPS : 1594.16
root@DD-WRT:~# lscpu
Architecture: armv7l
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Vendor ID: ARM
Model name: Cortex-A9
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: r3p0
BogoMIPS: 1594.16
Flags: half fastmult edsp tls

root@DD-WRT:~# nvram get clkfreq
5000,1600

root@DD-WRT:~#

Like I said before, don't be so Quick to discredit, this chip has never been cooled like this with pure copper in this design
instead if you like we can work together and push this R7000 mod to it's limits ?
 
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BFG-9000 said:
You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?

nvram get clkfreq shows whatever speed you set but not the actual speed, if Suricata7 uses that.

To get the actual CPU speed, it's cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS which is an actual benchmark, or you would know right away if very CPU-limited apps such as openVPN or WireGuard suddenly ran 5x as fast.

The 40nm BCM4709A0 overclocks quite well, so without voltage mods, just about every example will overclock 20% to 1200MHz and if you are lucky 1400MHz but only a very few will run at 1600MHz. Intel was unable to get the Pentium 4 to run stable at 4GHz even when blowing 2x as much power through it, and you believe somehow the standard Broadcom reference design that Netgear chose just happens to be overprovisioned with enough excess VRM capacity to support 500% overclocking? I should point out that 56°C is a perfectly normal CPU temperature for a stock R7000 at stock 1000MHz with stock cooling... which is a giant aluminum plate unfortunately connected to the CPU through 4mm worth of thermal pads.

In the 11 years that router has been out, I have never seen anyone show proof of the RAM successfully running at even 1066MHz either, over the factory-stock 800MHz that its DDR3-1600 CL11 K4B2G1646E-BCK0 chip runs at. Don't you think if it would actually run at DDR3-3200 CL11 back in 2013 that Samsung might've charged a bit more for it?

We often see people who similarly claim sky-high overclocks for their GPU, only to find they never actually boost that high because the selected clocks go right off the voltage table so are ignored. You can set whatever you'd like but the hardware must actually do it, to be of any use.
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I also wrote to .......
requesting information on the :
Broadcom
BCM4709A0KFEBLG
MFR hashtag#BCM4709A0KFEBLG

FPN#BCM4709A0KFEBLG-FL

MFRBroadcom
Part Description
Microprocessors (MPU) ARM® Cortex®-A9 32Bit 2 Core 1GHz

My current testing is:
CPU Model Broadcom BCM4709
CPU Cores 2
CPU Features EDSP
CPU Clock 5000 MHz / DRAM 1GHz from 800MHz
Load Average
1.13, 1.06, 1.03
Temperatures CPU 40.2 °C / WL1 40.0 °C

Requesting MAX TESTED SPEED and MAX TEMPS
 
BFG-9000 said:
You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?

nvram get clkfreq shows whatever speed you set but not the actual speed, if Suricata7 uses that.

To get the actual CPU speed, it's cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS which is an actual benchmark, or you would know right away if very CPU-limited apps such as openVPN or WireGuard suddenly ran 5x as fast.

The 40nm BCM4709A0 overclocks quite well, so without voltage mods, just about every example will overclock 20% to 1200MHz and if you are lucky 1400MHz but only a very few will run at 1600MHz. Intel was unable to get the Pentium 4 to run stable at 4GHz even when blowing 2x as much power through it, and you believe somehow the standard Broadcom reference design that Netgear chose just happens to be overprovisioned with enough excess VRM capacity to support 500% overclocking? I should point out that 56°C is a perfectly normal CPU temperature for a stock R7000 at stock 1000MHz with stock cooling... which is a giant aluminum plate unfortunately connected to the CPU through 4mm worth of thermal pads.

In the 11 years that router has been out, I have never seen anyone show proof of the RAM successfully running at even 1066MHz either, over the factory-stock 800MHz that its DDR3-1600 CL11 K4B2G1646E-BCK0 chip runs at. Don't you think if it would actually run at DDR3-3200 CL11 back in 2013 that Samsung might've charged a bit more for it?

We often see people who similarly claim sky-high overclocks for their GPU, only to find they never actually boost that high because the selected clocks go right off the voltage table so are ignored. You can set whatever you'd like but the hardware must actually do it, to be of any use.
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Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r36070M kongac (05/31/18)
 
olikdenstien187 said:
BogoMIPS : 1594.16
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Your CPU is running at slower than stock speed, at 800MHz. This is very common if you don't have a CFE that allows overclocking--attempting to do so only results in the slowest default speed of the chip which is usually slower than the stock speed selected by the manufacturer

I don't have one of the bad CFEs on any of my R7000 (all are v1.0.22 or older and some later ones are known to not allow overclocking ) and all of them have been overclocked to 1200MHz for many years now. Running cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS on them results in BogoMIPS : 2398.61 due to the dual-cores. With the stock fanless cooling I get a reported 56°C

I would not expect a processor from 2013 to be able to run at 5GHz without liquid nitrogen cooling and ~10x the watts required at 1GHz. The ARM Cortex-A9 was designed to run at 1GHz in phones from 2011 and use 0.25w per core at that speed so that's about 5 watts

A few years ago DD-WRT had a bug where if you were using a non-stock or modified CFE (at the time it was popular to use the ASUS RT-AC68 CFE to be able to use Merlin firmware), the big red "Reboot Router" button in Administration - Management actually also reset everything to defaults too, so did a NVRAM clear. So be careful when trying other CFEs, though your old DD-WRT build probably predates this bug
 
BFG-9000 said:
Your CPU is running at slower than stock speed, at 800MHz. This is very common if you don't have a CFE that allows overclocking--attempting to do so only results in the slowest default speed of the chip which is usually slower than the stock speed selected by the manufacturer

I don't have one of the bad CFEs on any of my R7000 (all are v1.0.22 or older and some later ones are known to not allow overclocking ) and all of them have been overclocked to 1200MHz for many years now. Running cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS on them results in BogoMIPS : 2398.61 due to the dual-cores. With the stock fanless cooling I get a reported 56°C

I would not expect a processor from 2013 to be able to run at 5GHz without liquid nitrogen cooling and ~10x the watts required at 1GHz. The ARM-A9 was designed to run at 1GHz in phones from 2011 and use 0.25w per core at that speed so that's about 5 watts

A few years ago DD-WRT had a bug where if you were using a non-stock or modified CFE (at the time it was popular to use the ASUS RT-AC68 CFE to be able to use Merlin firmware), the big red "Reboot Router" button in Administration - Management actually also reset everything to defaults too, so did a NVRAM clear. So be careful when trying other CFEs
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BogoMips (from "bogus" and MIPS) is a crude measurement of CPU speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots to calibrate an internal busy-loop.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips#cite_note-lj-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> An often-quoted definition of the term is "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips#cite_note-quote-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips#cite_note-esr-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a>

BogoMips from 1993 is a value that can be used to verify whether the processor in question is in the proper range of similar processors, i.e. BogoMips represents a processor's clock frequency as well as the potentially present CPU cache. It is not usable for performance comparisons among different CPUs
this is old and tired....is there anything newer than 1993 testing, perhaps a different dd-wrt build for testing ?
 
Just need to attack this CPU MHz Problem as there seems to be a lock would explain the blank return ? the unit is not giving up the information I need... I want to find out actual speeds then push those speeds with this pure copper heat-sink MOD for the CPU / MEM CHIP because I think it can take a lot more than any other mod out there !
 
A stock R7000 should show 2000 BogoMIPS and at 5GHz you should be seeing 10,000 BogoMIPS. It's just what's included in the kernel so everyone has it, and every R7000 has the same CPU so comparisons are valid

With a R7000 you have plenty of options for firmware. You could use FreshTomato 2024.5 if you prefer to use kernel 2.6.36.4 which is closest to what that device originally shipped with. The latest DD-WRT anyone has reported working on R7000 is r58858 from Dec 21st 2024 and if you've figured out how to install Entware then other software packages can either install the same way or through Entware (I'll suggest LMbench as it can test memory performance too). Or you could even use OpenWRT if you don't need to use the radios (as no open-source drivers for those but apparently 2.4GHz can work at G speeds) as it comes with a really nice package manager right in the GUI--you just click on what you'd like to install and it takes care of all necessary dependencies automatically

BTW Kong went over to making builds for OpenWRT if you like his full-featured kitchen-sink type builds
 
BFG-9000 said:
A stock R7000 should show 2000 BogoMIPS and at 5GHz you should be seeing 10,000 BogoMIPS. It's just what's included in the kernel so everyone has it, and every R7000 has the same CPU so comparisons are valid

With a R7000 you have plenty of options for firmware. You could use FreshTomato 2024.5 if you prefer to use kernel 2.6.36.4 which is closest to what that device originally shipped with. The latest DD-WRT anyone has reported working on R7000 is r58858 from Dec 21st 2024 and if you've figured out how to install Entware then other software packages can either install the same way or through Entware (I'll suggest LMbench as it can test memory performance too). Or you could even use OpenWRT if you don't need to use the radios (as no open-source drivers for those but apparently 2.4GHz can work at G speeds) as it comes with a really nice package manager right in the GUI--you just click on what you'd like to install and it takes care of all necessary dependencies automatically

BTW Kong went over to making builds for OpenWRT if you like his full-featured kitchen-sink type builds
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Thank you for responding, I am a DD-WRT guy so I will stick with what I know and Love !
so was the thinking correct about the Build ?
going to a different build will give me better accesses to the CPU & DRAM in regards to Actual speeds and unlocking room to work with this CPU on a RAW Level ?
is this build it's self the problem ?
I Need to get this done and I will take care of wrapping everything else around the Core of this Router being pushed HARD as believe it can take it !
and How about my want to upload pictures ?
I am new to this platform and is there a way I can share pics on this Project ?
 
BFG-9000 said:
You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?

nvram get clkfreq shows whatever speed you set but not the actual speed, if Suricata7 uses that.

To get the actual CPU speed, it's cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS which is an actual benchmark, or you would know right away if very CPU-limited apps such as openVPN or WireGuard suddenly ran 5x as fast.

The 40nm BCM4709A0 overclocks quite well, so without voltage mods, just about every example will overclock 20% to 1200MHz and if you are lucky 1400MHz but only a very few will run at 1600MHz. Intel was unable to get the Pentium 4 to run stable at 4GHz even when blowing 2x as much power through it, and you believe somehow the standard Broadcom reference design that Netgear chose just happens to be overprovisioned with enough excess VRM capacity to support 500% overclocking? I should point out that 56°C is a perfectly normal CPU temperature for a stock R7000 at stock 1000MHz with stock cooling... which is a giant aluminum plate unfortunately connected to the CPU through 4mm worth of thermal pads.

In the 11 years that router has been out, I have never seen anyone show proof of the RAM successfully running at even 1066MHz either, over the factory-stock 800MHz that its DDR3-1600 CL11 K4B2G1646E-BCK0 chip runs at. Don't you think if it would actually run at DDR3-3200 CL11 back in 2013 that Samsung might've charged a bit more for it?

We often see people who similarly claim sky-high overclocks for their GPU, only to find they never actually boost that high because the selected clocks go right off the voltage table so are ignored. You can set whatever you'd like but the hardware must actually do it, to be of any use.
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"You do know that some CFE revisions disallow overclocking, right?"
No I Did Not ! Come on, I am on this forum for a reason !!!
someone has got to know what the BEST OVERCLOCKING dd-wrt build for the Net gear Nighthawk R7000 ~ I am asking everyone on this forum for your recommendations and i will post speeds & TEMPS Please Help !
 
olikdenstien187 said:
This is the MOD you all have been waiting for, unlike ANYTHING you have ever seen before....Guaranteed
Lets start from the Beginning, I have been wanting to do this for over 5 years !
and I figured out a way to do this for under $40 dollars US
Click to expand...
To disable CPU throttling on a Netgear R7000 router running DD-WRT, navigate to the "Advanced" settings within the DD-WRT interface ?
  • Access the settings: Go to the DD-WRT web interface, navigate to "Advanced" settings ? not my build ?
  • Alternative firmware:
    If you encounter issues with DD-WRT stability, consider switching to another firmware like FreshTomato, which may handle CPU throttling better on the R7000 ?
Does anyone have entware running on FreshTomato ?
 
Entware ( Optware ) Suricata ISD / IPS with Swap-utils on a Modded 128GB HDD on a USB 3.0
Monitoring the br0.

I believe This CPU can take heaver overclocking because of these products here:

G109 1.2oz 35g Thermal Glue, Thermal Conductive Adhesive​

Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad 8 Self-Adhesive​

Heatsink Aluminum Radiator Heat Sink​

I already have Suricat7 running rite now, just want to run it a little faster

CPU 36.2 °C current temp
How can I upload my pics for the Hardware Mod ?
 
Again, WHY, specifically, are you trying to overclock something that was not designed or intended to be overclocked?

What do you hope to accomplish?

Just keep in mind at all times that if you even think about touching anything related to the wireless functionality you may well receive a visit from the FCC if anyone around you complains of interference.
 
Because I said I was going to do it...and I always complete my projects.
if you know any good dd-wrt builds for unlocked overclocking for the R7000
please me know.
opinions....everybody has one.
I just built 3 AMD79503DX systems that i designed.
I did this R7000 for Fun ! because I wanted to.
 
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