Running the WL700gE at 300MHz

[Elect]

Nice, then it should be safe to use it @300Mhz. On the wl500gp we use clkfreq=300,150 as 133Mhz at @backplane does not work for some reason.

So I can assume that my 500gP will not burn down my room with these settings? You tested this for a couple of days?

[al37919]

Usually, Oleg recommends to avoid doing that unless you ensured better heat dissipation for the CPU, i.e. attach a heatsink to it.

[Oleg]

So I can assume that my 500gP will not burn down my room with these settings? You tested this for a couple of days?

My wl500gp runs @300Mhz for several months now, but some guys were not able to even boot @300Mhz (i.e. bricked the box, but recovered using a console), but clkfreq=288,144 worked fine for them. My other wl500gp with 128mb of ram was unstable @300Mhz (i.e. showed memory errors during tests), it's running @264Mhz now.

And yes, I've a heatsink attached.

IO performance does not change, as PCI is still running @33Mhz.

[Elect]

I don't think the 30 mhz will make such a big difference. At least, not as much as I would like to see for the pain it costs to recover it. 300 mhz would be nice though, but the probable need for a heatsink makes it less interesting.

[thira]

My wl500gp runs @300Mhz for several months now, but some guys were not able to even boot @300Mhz (i.e. bricked the box, but recovered using a console), but clkfreq=288,144 worked fine for them. My other wl500gp with 128mb of ram was unstable @300Mhz (i.e. showed memory errors during tests), it's running @264Mhz now.

And yes, I've a heatsink attached.

IO performance does not change, as PCI is still running @33Mhz.

Very interesting thread.
Oleg, Please you post "howto add 128mbs of ram to 500gP"?
Thanks you very much.