I have had my abit kr7a-raid running for a long time now at 180 fsb, no problems. i have 2 IBM 60 GXP HDDs
that are raided and connecting throught the HPT 372 controller. there is no earthly reason that these hard drives
should run correctly when there is only a 1/4 divider, but they do. i recently got another HDD identicle to the other 2
and put it on the standard IDE controller instead of the HPT raid controller. whenever i try to copy even a gig or so to that
drive, windows 2000 just reboots and / or blue screens. this is what i was expecting to happen at these frequencies
with the other 2 drives. when this happened it made me start thinking ..... is it really the HDD that is failing ? i mean,
they run fine on the other controller at upto 180 and even higher fsb. could the problem REALLY be with the southbridge.
Its rare that you hear of an overclock failing because of an AGP video board, which is conencted to the northbridge,
it is always some device connected to the southbridge. could the overclocking perils of today not be caused by our
specific hardware so much as the via southbridge ? i bought my kr7a-raid before abit implemented the new southbridge
and started calling it the kr7a133-raid. if anyone has that board and can test the new southbridge do so, and let me know.
this really has my interest peaked, and i hope it peaks some of yours.
that are raided and connecting throught the HPT 372 controller. there is no earthly reason that these hard drives
should run correctly when there is only a 1/4 divider, but they do. i recently got another HDD identicle to the other 2
and put it on the standard IDE controller instead of the HPT raid controller. whenever i try to copy even a gig or so to that
drive, windows 2000 just reboots and / or blue screens. this is what i was expecting to happen at these frequencies
with the other 2 drives. when this happened it made me start thinking ..... is it really the HDD that is failing ? i mean,
they run fine on the other controller at upto 180 and even higher fsb. could the problem REALLY be with the southbridge.
Its rare that you hear of an overclock failing because of an AGP video board, which is conencted to the northbridge,
it is always some device connected to the southbridge. could the overclocking perils of today not be caused by our
specific hardware so much as the via southbridge ? i bought my kr7a-raid before abit implemented the new southbridge
and started calling it the kr7a133-raid. if anyone has that board and can test the new southbridge do so, and let me know.
this really has my interest peaked, and i hope it peaks some of yours.
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