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AGP/PCI specs

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Soccer55

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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