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Few Question On MSI K7N2-L

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Sosoo

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Ok got a MSI K7N2-L, 1600+, 256 DDR 2100, I got it easily to 150X10.5 (multi not unlocked) but I am concerned about the Pci bus speed and I understand on this board the PCI bus is not locked. Right now at 150 it's at 37.5 which is ok but I am afraid to go much higher due to my Western Digital HDD's. Not sure they can take it as in the past I have coruppted files when overclocking. So am I right.. is the PCI bus not locked on this board, and also does maybe a 1/5 divider kick in at 166??? One more thing, using Sandra 2003 I cannot find the pci bus speed, seems like in past versions of Sandra it would list it along with a warning about it is to high??
 
The MSI K7N2-L has definately got a PCI lock at 33MHz, courtesy of the nForce2 chipset.
Source: Someone at the MSI forums (or was it AMDworld?) tested the board at a variety of FSB's and used sandra to check.

I hope this is a good board, mine should be here in a few days 🙂
 
chilled thax for the reply, I finally after some digging found the post you mentioned.

Link

But for the live of me I can't find in Sandra 2003 where it shows the PCI/AGP buss speeds? I know though in a previous version of sandra it was there though? Maybe I am blind, just would like to see it for myself? Anyway my 1600+ is fine at 160x10.5, may try little more later.😱
 
Just because Sandra (or whatever) lists a speed does not mean it knows. I have seen stuff that was total BS. Some of the detection programs don't really detect some things, especially on new or unsual mobos; they just assume. The reviewers I have read say it impossible to determine the PCI bus speed;you have to ask the designers of the mobo.

But as was said, that chipset is SUPPOSED to run a constant PCI speed.

In general if you are worried about HD corruption, partition your drive with a 3-4G extra partition for test purposes, put an OS on it, and dual boot to that. XP can do this very easily. If you get a boot manager, you can even have it so that only your test partition is visible to XP or Win9x, and so your main partition should be absolutely safe. (I have 3 instances of XP, 2 of 98se, and 2 of Linux on my main computer.)
 
I thought there was no PCI lock...yet all nForce 2 mobo's have a lock, so you'd think this one would too. I wish I knew the real answer 😕
 
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