Hello, I just bought a new router, the RT-AC86U and it has quickly come to my knowledge that wireless routers burn out due to heat which is why there are mixed reviews for all gaming routers on Amazon/Newegg and such that say "my router died after 8 months" or something similar. After installing Asuswrt-Merlin, I can clearly see the idle CPU temp is at 80C which wouldn't be something any computer geek wants to see on any of their processors. I don't understand how a router CPU should be any different.
This has led me to seek options of how to underclock and cool the CPU as I do not have any need for its full processing capabilities. I have already purchased a couple of fans which are blowing on the back of the router through the vent holes, cooling it to an average of 63C which is a lot better, but still hot by any standards of how geeks treat their processors. I have tried to research how to underclock the CPU on this device, but I cannot find anything whatsoever in concrete terms.
Using PuTTY, I understand that the 2 cores of the processor are referred to as the following:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
CPU implementer : 0x42
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x100
CPU revision : 0
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
CPU implementer : 0x42
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x100
CPU revision : 0
Now, what I don't understand is how this relates at all to 1.8 GHz, like if there is a CPU multiplier of 18x with base clock 100MHz or how to translate this "BogoMIPS" value into an actual CPU clock, if what I am reading from the Internet is what I should be taking as truth in any way whatsoever. I also have no clue how or what to set the memory clock to, since from my understanding, the format of the command is:
nvram set clkfreq=(CPU Clock),(RAM Clock)
Does anyone know what the RAM clock even is on the RT-AC86U? I sure don't. I also have no clue how to correctly set the CPU clock as it seems obscured by this "BogoMIPS" value which seems to not correlate at all with the actual MHz clock. Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you so much for your help
This has led me to seek options of how to underclock and cool the CPU as I do not have any need for its full processing capabilities. I have already purchased a couple of fans which are blowing on the back of the router through the vent holes, cooling it to an average of 63C which is a lot better, but still hot by any standards of how geeks treat their processors. I have tried to research how to underclock the CPU on this device, but I cannot find anything whatsoever in concrete terms.
Using PuTTY, I understand that the 2 cores of the processor are referred to as the following:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
CPU implementer : 0x42
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x100
CPU revision : 0
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 100.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
CPU implementer : 0x42
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x100
CPU revision : 0
Now, what I don't understand is how this relates at all to 1.8 GHz, like if there is a CPU multiplier of 18x with base clock 100MHz or how to translate this "BogoMIPS" value into an actual CPU clock, if what I am reading from the Internet is what I should be taking as truth in any way whatsoever. I also have no clue how or what to set the memory clock to, since from my understanding, the format of the command is:
nvram set clkfreq=(CPU Clock),(RAM Clock)
Does anyone know what the RAM clock even is on the RT-AC86U? I sure don't. I also have no clue how to correctly set the CPU clock as it seems obscured by this "BogoMIPS" value which seems to not correlate at all with the actual MHz clock. Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you so much for your help