I finally figured out how to change multipliers and started tinkering with my system's bus speed; right now I'm running a 10.5x200 configuration to keep the heat down because I have a 70C thermal warning set in my BIOS and on average I'm looking at 60-61C after a few hours. Anyway, the board is a GA-7N400 Pro2, Vcore is 1.72V, VDIMM is 2.7V, running a gig of Mushkin PC3500 Level-I at 2-3-3-11, and the power supply is an Antec 430w; as some (most) of you may already know, GigaByte thoughtfully includes a program called EasyTune to allow you to overclock without having to go into the BIOS everytime you want to tweak some settings.
I mostly use it to monitor my CPU temperature, so I can cry and whine about it being so high on IRC
P), but I noticed that the program was defaulting to a "linear" PCI/AGP configuration instead of the nForce2-standard PCI/AGP asynchronous configuration whenever I open it, regardless of if I save any settings or not. With my bus at 200MHz instead of 166, linear configuration puts my PCI at 40MHz and my AGP at 80MHz; I know that the 80MHz is impossible, because I forced the AGP bus to 66 in the BIOS before booting into Windows. But that 40MHz PCI is really bugging me, because I know that a PCI bus that's too far out will corrupt the hard drives...
So, my question is: Did I actually take the bus out of spec, or is ET4 just reporting the wrong information? If anyone would know, it's gotta be you guys.
I mostly use it to monitor my CPU temperature, so I can cry and whine about it being so high on IRC
P), but I noticed that the program was defaulting to a "linear" PCI/AGP configuration instead of the nForce2-standard PCI/AGP asynchronous configuration whenever I open it, regardless of if I save any settings or not. With my bus at 200MHz instead of 166, linear configuration puts my PCI at 40MHz and my AGP at 80MHz; I know that the 80MHz is impossible, because I forced the AGP bus to 66 in the BIOS before booting into Windows. But that 40MHz PCI is really bugging me, because I know that a PCI bus that's too far out will corrupt the hard drives...So, my question is: Did I actually take the bus out of spec, or is ET4 just reporting the wrong information? If anyone would know, it's gotta be you guys.
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