AGP/PCI specs

[Soccer55]

I'm starting to overclock my P3 700e and I was wondering how high the PCI bus can go without doing too much damage to the components. I know that it varies by component and stuff like that, but I didn't know if there was a general area, say around 38 mhz or so, that is considered the "danger zone" where cards reach their limits and may burn out. The reason I'm asking is that I haven't been able to hit 933 with my week 21 cb0 So hopefully, I can get it as close to 933 as possible without killing any of my cards. Thanks in advance.

-Tom

 

[Viperoni]

I highly doubt the cards will burn out, but you may get hard drive data corruption (fast PCI speed), plus you maybe get lockups (cards can't handle the speed)

But a PCI card burning out fvrom too much bus speed is almost unheard of.

 

[Soccer55]

Thanks for the reply. Is there any magic speed where this might happen or is this completely different for every individual hard drive? I'm glad cards can't burn out cause I would hate to think what I'd have to do to replace my Herc 64 MB GTS if it somehow burned out

-Tom

 

[Soccer55]

I have another question as well, I just downloaded Motherboard Monitor 5 and I've read in other threads that the CUSL2 1001.A BIOS reports temps incorrectly. Does this affect the readings that I get from MBM?

-Tom

 

[AndyHui]

For PCI, I would be very reluctant to run at anything over 39MHz. There are quite a few hard drives (Maxtor drives come to mind) that don't like high speeds. SCSI cards are particularly notorious for not liking non-standard PCI bus speeds.