24 Jul
2004
24 Jul
'04
3:01 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:33:07AM -0400, Matthew Barber wrote:
generally wants to run at about 33Mhz (unless you have
a very new board
with PCI-X or some such), and AGP at 66Mhz, and these values will
generally be a fraction of the fsb. So if your fsb is 66Mhz, PCI will
be 1/2FSB. If it's 100Mhz, PCI will be 1/3. Setting it to 75Mhz may
cause it to still be in the 66Mhz realm as far as the division is
concerned, and set PCI to around 38Mhz, which may cause a lot of
problems.
Yes, one thing this used to do was to cause data corruption on certain
Maxtor hard drives, at least under windows. I think in linux, you can
pass a idebus= option to the kernel to tell it that the bus is
overclocked.
I know some BIOS will take care of this by locking AGP
and
PCI to a certain value, but I wouldn't count on it with an older
board/bios.
Also, even when the PCI bus is run asynchronously, while the data
corruption issues aren't around anymore, there is unfortunately a
latency tradeoff, which may make using a 75MHz/83MHz FSB not even worth
it in the end.
--
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis(a)icequake.net>