How tough is an Audigy 2? :(

[htmlmasterdave]

I remember in the old days, if you were overclocking and your pci bus went much past 75-80, you were risking corrupting your hard drive, or destryoing sound cards or lan cards, etc.. Well, I was overclocking my P4, and by accident, when i set the FSB to 250, I left the pci bus at i think 86 or 89.... now nothing SEEMS broken, but like just tonight, I left my machine on,l and i can back in the morning and the sound wasn't working.... I reset and it was fine (i pushed the P4 too far, and i think i may have corrupted windows a bit) So basically, is that still an issue today? Can you still break cards by having the pci bus that high? Or do you think that I just corrupted windows/some random windows crash/drive issue caused my sound to not work? I'm just worried that the card, or other PCI peripherals could be damaged TIA

 

[Regs]

You wont damage anything but the CPU if you overclock the FSB. Not unless your hardware magically sets the voltage to the PCI/AGP busses and memory settings by itself.

And the only way you damage a CPU by that much of an overclock without adjusting the vcore, would be excessive heat. In that case your PC would of shut itself off before any damage occurred.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I'm sorry, but that was the agp speed, the PCI bus speed was half that...

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Regs
You wont damage anything but the CPU if you overclock the FSB. Not unless your hardware magically sets the voltage to the PCI/AGP busses and memory settings by itself.

And the only way you damage a CPU by that much of an overclock without adjusting the vcore, would be excessive heat. In that case your PC would of shut itself off before any damage occurred.

way to be ignorant. if you FSB overclock without compensating for the AGP and PCI frequencies, you risk hard drive data corruption. massive data loss, damage to hardware, and other such matters aside, you can perfectly well have a CPU that is cold (Vapochill? Prometia, anyone?), and still die from excessive overclocking.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: Regs
You wont damage anything but the CPU if you overclock the FSB. Not unless your hardware magically sets the voltage to the PCI/AGP busses and memory settings by itself.

And the only way you damage a CPU by that much of an overclock without adjusting the vcore, would be excessive heat. In that case your PC would of shut itself off before any damage occurred.

way to be ignorant. if you FSB overclock without compensating for the AGP and PCI frequencies, you risk hard drive data corruption. massive data loss, damage to hardware, and other such matters aside, you can perfectly well have a CPU that is cold (Vapochill? Prometia, anyone?), and still die from excessive overclocking.

So do you think I am in any danger?

 

[sellmen]

Originally posted by: htmlmasterdave

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: Regs
You wont damage anything but the CPU if you overclock the FSB. Not unless your hardware magically sets the voltage to the PCI/AGP busses and memory settings by itself.

And the only way you damage a CPU by that much of an overclock without adjusting the vcore, would be excessive heat. In that case your PC would of shut itself off before any damage occurred.

way to be ignorant. if you FSB overclock without compensating for the AGP and PCI frequencies, you risk hard drive data corruption. massive data loss, damage to hardware, and other such matters aside, you can perfectly well have a CPU that is cold (Vapochill? Prometia, anyone?), and still die from excessive overclocking.

So do you think I am in any danger?

Yes.

 

[Regs]

I've only witnessed these "massive data losses" on older hardware like the late SCSI HDD's, but ok im ignorant . But common sense tells me you where not planning to leave the settings like that, it will wear and tear your hardware either way. Plus cause lock ups and crashes. Reinstall the sound drivers and hopefully that will quell your problem.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I just opened it up like 5 minutes ago to take a look, and there is no visible damage to anything(capacitors, etc.) I think that my windows installation is just messed up, I wasn't giving the cpu enough voltage when I was overlclocking(i hit 3.13ghz) and it crashed during 3dmark...so things were probably somewhat screwed up by that. I also doubt that if I had hurt the card that the sound would be working...Oh well, I think I was just overly worried, and besides, when it was at that speed, it didn't even post(cpu speed was too high) so there is a good chance the cards weren't even initialized at that speed anyways. Thanks for the input though and confirming what I thought... I better be more careful next time.