Hello,
I was playing around benching the ethernet/cpu power to see how it does at different frequencies and IF it worths buying a higher clocked CPU routerboard or not.
Some pics:
Benching in TCP with both config (receive and transmit) clocked at 800MHz the CPU, one of my RB411AH routerboards COULDN’T handle the load/temperature and restarted after a minute or so. Re-tested it and did the same.
The other one worked fine.
SO, I believe that overclocking the CPU at 800MHz, isn’t a good idea since the routerboard was working at 25C inside enviroment and rebooted…
IF I put it ouside on summertime with 40C outside temp and inside the box reaches over 50*C, I don’t thing that it’ll work.
Problem is that there are people out there who have already overclocked their routerboards and they are encoding problems (like I did) trying to solve them within this forum and their mind doesn’t go the the fact that they might have problems due to this.
No, that statement isn’t correct, otherwise routerboard would never allow you to do it.
Overclocking a routerboard CAN make your routerboard unstable depending on how much of a ‘cherry pick’ your CPU is and the environment you are using it. Environment can be many things like stability of the power supply (filtered UPS in front of it?) and temperature where it’s located.
I have had one of my RB2011’s overclocked since I got it, has been working perfectly, but as they always say, your mileage may vary.
p.s. The same applies to ANY overclock of ANY device.
Same rules apply with any PC overclock. If you don’t run it in a hot environment, and if you can provide adequate cooling for the device, you can use it with good success. Many of our products have Fan connectors, many of them have several of them. You can attach all kinds of fans, and put them in all kinds of places.
