3com Nic Problems when Overclocking

[Inferno]

Anyone know why my PING screems up to like 350 when I play quake 3? My bus was running at 150mhz I would think that the higher PCI bus would would be ok for i being a 3com. Anyone have any BIOS tweaks that could cause poor perforamnce.

Also like when I'm playing quake my ping climbs to 300 then when the level is over the ping falls back down to like 80.

I set my bus to 133mhz on my Epox *kta3 and now its better but the ping still climbs.

 

[Daniel]

Does it do it at 100 fsb? And if so what is your connection, isn't it possible that it's just bad latency?

 

[dkk]

The higher ping time (latency) is likely to be caused by all that sending and receiving data. I have cable modem, and when I send out data, my ping time increase.

 

[bex0rs]

Generally, hardware tends to quit working altogether when it can't handle being run out of spec. It sounds like the network card is doing fine and that your connection is just acting up. I've been running an Intel Pro100+ NIC at 133/3 = 44 Mhz for some time now and have had no problems with it. I'm assuming that you are running your 3com at 150/4 = 37.5, which is just over 10% out of spec, not really a big deal.

~bex0rs