Can IDE raid (promise fasttrak) handle my high FSB and o/ced PCI?

[Madcowz]

I'm thinking of upgrading to raid but I hear that these IDE controllers don't take too well to overclocking. Right now I'm overclocked to 150FSB and 38MHz PCI... is this too much? In the near future I would like to overclock even further so would I be safe with 40MHz on the PCI?

 

[crazyjoekuta]

what kinda chip do you have?

 

[Madcowz]

P3 700E, but what does that have to do with anything?

Anyways also I'll be using 2 Maxtor DiamondMax 40 ATA100 7200RPM 40.9GB hard drives. Does Maxtor have a record of being o/cer friendly?

 

[crazyjoekuta]

i was just curious b/c i wanna know if i can o/c my fsb w/ a tbird 700...
oh yea, and your question! i have heard of many people frying their drives using speeds over 40. it works for a while, then they start losing sectors, or it just crashes.

 

[AdamK47]

Does your Fasttrack have the clock generator on the board? The ones without the clock generator have to rely on the PCI clock to run. The boards with the clock generator can run at high PCI bus speeds.

 

[Madcowz]

How do I tell if it has a clock generator or not? I don't possess the card yet, but I plan on getting a REAL fasttrak and not a modded ATA100 controller

 

[skull]

I was thinking about setting a RAID array up with 2 maxtor drives too but I heard they are really bad in RAID situations.

 

[BigToque]

Madcowz

You know that you wont be able to push your 700E too much further past 1050, if at all. The current P3 core has a roof of about 1000 MHz

 

[OS]

It has a clock generator if there is a small silver box on the center of the card. I have a modded fasttrak w/o a clock gen and it did NOT like high FSBs. I used it as just a straight IDE controller and when my computer crashed, it corrupted/damaged some files. This was all in NT4 on an 83 mhz FSB.

slightly OT, but I have an extra 33 mhz oscillator sitting around, suppose I could just solder it in?

 

[Madcowz]

roof smoof... I have one word to say to that... S-U-P-E-R-C-O-O-L-I-N-G