Burning disks while overclocking

[Brian23]

If I burn a CD or DVD while my computer is overclocked, will there be more errors on it than if I don't overclock? Also will the timing between the 1s and 0s be correct?

I have an Athlon xp on a board that does not have a PCI lock. So, when I run it at 150 FSB, the PCI and IDE busses are running at about 37MHz. Will this cause any problems on the burned disk?

 

[xsilver]

as long as your computer doesnt crash, then i think you're ok
however with hdd's running at too high a pci bus for too long will eventually crash possibly causing you to lose all your data

on an athlon xp if you can get it to 166fsb the pci divider may kick in again and default back to 33mhz? depends on your board / chipset

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I think this just depends. You have a higher chance of error.

I had this Athlon 1100 that I took to 1400 stable. Prime 95 wouldn't finish, but 3D Mark 2001 was fine. The system NEVER crashed on me, but Prime 95 would just report error about 1 min into stress test and stop. I played games, everythign fine.

I dropped it to 1360 and it ran like a charm. Prime passed, etc etc etc. I finally decided to settle with 1333 and just keep it there. This was well below my max and temps were well below 50 (around 47 load I think).

I ripped and encoded a DVD into SVCD and I would get an error like 3 passes into VBR (like 9 hrs in or something). I tried this like 2 - 3 times and got the same error. I dropped the clock back to 1100 and never again was there a problem...

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
I think this just depends. You have a higher chance of error.

I had this Athlon 1100 that I took to 1400 stable. Prime 95 wouldn't finish, but 3D Mark 2001 was fine. The system NEVER crashed on me, but Prime 95 would just report error about 1 min into stress test and stop. I played games, everythign fine.

I dropped it to 1360 and it ran like a charm. Prime passed, etc etc etc. I finally decided to settle with 1333 and just keep it there. This was well below my max and temps were well below 50 (around 47 load I think).

I ripped and encoded a DVD into SVCD and I would get an error like 3 passes into VBR (like 9 hrs in or something). I tried this like 2 - 3 times and got the same error. I dropped the clock back to 1100 and never again was there a problem...

He's right -- I wouldn't recommend it either.

 

[Baked]

Let me see... my Barton 2500+ is OCed to 3200+ for the past 2 years, have done everything you can image w/ the system. No errors I can think of, and certainly not during CD or DVD burning.

 

[Megatomic]

Your PCI bus is probably locked, too, Baked. It looks like the OP is running on an older Via chipset and they could be flakey with the PCI and AGP buses overclocked.

Brian23, how do programs like Prime95 and SuperPi run on your system?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Ok I come from the era of non locked PCI and AGP busses.

37 should be fine. 37.5 is fine for the components. I'm thinking your North bridge might be stressed. I forgot how the Bartons overclock, but if anything I would be worried about your CPU/chipset first. I think 39/40 shouldn't even be a problem for most cards. If you said you had problems at that point, I might think your cards have problems, but for the most part, as long as you don't cross 40, you should be fine.

As for your AGP bus, 75 should be ok. I don't think you're at risk of killing anything.

 

[Insidious]

Anytime you run your system out of it's specified speeds and voltages you run a greater chance of errors occuring. The art of overclocking is trying to find that magic speed where everything is stable despite the OC.

If you are doing anything critical, it would be silly not to run stock speeds and volts. If running OC'd is your bigger priority, well then...

You pay your money and you take your chances


-Sid

The short answer is:

OF COURSE you run a better chance of having errors when Overclocking. But if you do it right, those chances can be minimized.

 

[AristoV300]

If your system is truely stable then you should have no problems.

 

[nealh]

Here is a good example
I had an athlon running I thought stable at @148 fsb...burned some music cds..played and they did not work...dropped speed to 145 and everything was fine..so if you have o/ced t ofar you will get errors in apps...

I have bunred a ton of dvd with A64 @2550..test burns o/ced and underclocked...discs have same error reports in Nero cd/dvd speed to test quality o/ced or stock....play fine and data is ok

so if you go to far you will have an issue

 

[sharkeeper]

Sigh...

If you have to ask this question you should not be overclocking period.

What's the risk?

 

[Brian23]

Originally posted by: Kvaerner Masa
Sigh...

If you have to ask this question you should not be overclocking period.

What's the risk?

I'm asking because I want to know. I have an Applebred Duron 1.8GHz (default 133fsb) and a KT600-A motherboard and 1GB Mushkin PC3200 cl2. My board ALMOST runs stable at 166, but it's not quite there. It will run memtest86 at 166 for 24 hours, but when loading windows I get a bluescreen. So I dropped it back to 150 giving me a PCI/IDE of 37.5 MHz. It's passed prime95 24hours, memtest86 24hrs, and 2 hours of Unreal Tournament. I use this computer for a lot of DVD burning and file storage, so I'm concerned about errors on my disks. I have 420GB of HD data stored accross 3 IDE drives.