Does the SATA prevent overclocking?

[AmeenR]

Does the architecture of serial ata hard drives prevent stable or even any overclocking??? I've read many articles regarding overclocking and how the PATA hard drives always tend to yield higher OC's. I've even seen computers with AGP/PCI chipset locks really go no where run running SATA drives. Granted, this is focusing on mobo's that accept the Athlon 64 CPU. The reason being is that I plan on building a new system by x-mas (939pin A64) and would like to OC it.

 

[MDE]

I think it's just the way chipset makers are implementing it. The AGP\PCI lock may not be enough and they may need to implement a SATA lock or something. Interestingly enough, most of the "SATA limited" overclocks seem to top out around 220FSB, which is about where an unlocked PCI bus will cut you off.

 

[Manzelle]

I'm not sure if it does or not...I can boot up in WinXP with my FSB @ 245 but it isn't stable when doing anything worthwhile...right now I have it running at 200x13 because I don't see a difference between any higher FSB and multiplier that would equate to roughly 2.6GHz...

 

[gotensan01]

I have an amd64 2800 cpu and asus k8v mobo. It has the divider so that pci/agp bus stays at 33mhz if you hit about 233 or 234 fsb with processor. However when I tried oc'ing to 234, I think the SATA drive was holding me back.

It posted okay but before booting to windows, it said that I needed to put in a boot disk because it didn't really recognize the SATA drive. Since it booted without saying any error messages like "Overclocking Failed!", I think the SATA is definetly holding me back...kinda sucks.

 

[Shimmishim]

i can run 275 1:1 with my dfi lanparty 754 but i hear that it has problems once you go higher if you use the external SATA controller... if you use the internal one, it should be fine

 

[LesPaul]

shim you are a madman. Always got some sweeet overclocks going.