bus speed question

[Deeko]

I have my K7M's bus speed set at 115 right now. I can get it as high as 119 reliably. Right now I'm at 1.9v(TBird 800@920). Sandra tells me that the 115 bus speed has my AGP and PCI clocks to high, at 77 and 38 MHz. Is this true? If so, what is a safe speed? Also, is 1.9v too high for the CPU? I'm considering just getting a GFD.

 

[Vegito]

PCI = FSB /3
AGP = FSB 2/3

ie. FSB 100/ PCI 3 = 100/3 = 33.3333333333; AGP = FSB 100 * 2/3 = 66.6666666666;

So your 115 /3 = 38 and 115 * 2/3 = 77 and change...

BX overclock runs AGP at 89Mhz.. overclocking is never safe so it doesn't matter.. unless you can use 115/4 making it 28 pci which is slow.

 

[obeseotron]

High PCI speeds are much more of an issue than AGP in my experience. If you have a geforce 1, 2, v3, v4, or v5 it shouldn't be an issue to run your video at 90Mhz or higher. Many hard drives can start acting funny at 38Mhz or so though. If you have generic ram it is also unlikely that you will get to high above what it is rated as.