Does using PCI video card help CPU OC'ing?

[lopri]

What the title says.

Say, if I use a PCI video card instead of PCI-E one, does it help overclocking a CPU? If so, why?

Thanks in advance for your wisdom.

 

[Bobthelost]

No why the hell would it?

You're silly.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
No why the hell would it?

You're silly.

Most of the extreme OCers use PCI vid cards and windows 2000 or XP classic theme, when trying to hit their absolute highest bootable or POST?able speeds. Aka going for a World Record. This is all done to reduce the load or amount of stress on the processor that might make it crash or not boot.

I don?t really know the reason why, perhaps the slow bus 33Mhz doesn?t stress out the rest of the system as much as say AGP, PCI-e. If you were to use on onboard solution this would use CPU cycles so this would also stress the CPU more than PCI perhaps. This is all when trying to hit an absolute max OC. Obviously people will be using LN2 to cool the processor etc, and pump like 2.0v Vcore into it aswell, so you can see how extreme i mean.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Before pci/agp locks became common, I'm pretty sure pci video cards could generally handle an overclocked bus better than agp ones.