Does onboard sound, lan, raid, usb, kill o/c potential?

Dug

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I'm specifically looking at the P4T533 w/ onboard raid, lan, sound, usb2.0.

I really want to use the onboard stuff unless its been proven to hurt overclocking.
 

Mikki

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I've got the P4B533-E, and thru messing with it, I've found that the goodies don't really affect your overclocking headroom, but does have a slight hit on performance (not really noticable, mostly on scores). My main hit on performance right now is my usb asdl modem, but I ain't goin back to a 56K. HTH :)
 

Soulkeeper

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since a lot of those devices operate on the pci bus or some factor of it
the only time they might limit an overclock would be if you were overclocking the fsb high enough to where the pci bus would operate severly out of spec enough to where one of the devices would fail or cause instability problems
in other words pci divider reaches it's highest (ie: 1/5) and so the higher the fsb the higher out of spec the pci bus goes
this shouldn't be an issue with yur board i havn't seen anyone having such issues on these forums
 

Vette73

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I know the C-Media sound card does not like to overclock to well. At least on the 3 boards I have had it on. But the sound quality is great, so I keep going back to the 5.1ch C-Media
 

yodayoda

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i don't think it is any coincidence that routinely the best overclocker motherboards are Abit with no sound, no LAN. without modifications, the high FSBs and OCs are achieved with KT7A, KR7A, and KX7-333. some of the worst OCers are always Soyos and ECS, the ones with the most built-in stuff (all ECS doesn't usually have a lot of options). granted, Abit have the best MOSFETs with 3-phase power regulators and the best BIOS.

agreed, i have no evidence that it is integrated devices screwing things up. Abit RAID boards do very well too in fact, but it may just be Abit's superior device and manufactoring that makes them better.