Need a Sound Card that can handle Overclocking...

[ChrisADuffy]

Please let me know what cards can handle the higher PCI frequencies. Thankx.

 

[VeggieMan]

In my experience, just the soundblaster series will.. I have had my SBLive 5.1 running at 320mhz DDR (160mhz bus) without a hitch..and I think the other crteative cards are this good too.. as long as you dont go with an ISA one..

 

[Davegod]

i thought creative's cards were notorious hogs of the pci bus? Speaking as an Audigy owner, sound quality si great esp. for the price, but next time I'm getting a Herculese

Creative's driver people all need fired imo :frown:

 

[randomboy]

How high of a PCI frequency are you talking? My SB Live 5.1 never had a problem @ 35hz PCI bus.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

Well I was thinking of something that could handle the PCI bus running in the Lower 40's. I wonder if Audigy 2 can handle being overclocked.

 

[deerslayer]

I know this thread is old, but you can't say I didn't use the search function.

Are there known problems with overclocking and the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz cards? I can't get my AROIA 1600+ and Epox 8k5a2+ to go past 166 FSB. If I took out my card and turned the integrated sound back on do you suppose it would go higher?

 

[oldfart]

I used to run my TB SC @ 40 MHz PCI on my PIII system without a problem.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

My expierence with onboard sound is - it does not like the pci bus running too fast but it's worth a try.

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: oldfart
I used to run my TB SC @ 40 MHz PCI on my PIII system without a problem.

I don't know a whole lot about the PCI mhz as i'm pretty new to the whole overclocking thing, but I do know that at 166fsb a divider kicks in returning it to the regular mhz. When I try to set my fsb to 172, I get bsod's.

What would the PCI mhz be at 172?

 

[ChrisADuffy]

btw, I ordered the Audigy 2 after much research - apparently it can handle an oc'd pci bus.

 

[drewdogg808]

Originally posted by: LyNx01

Originally posted by: oldfart
I used to run my TB SC @ 40 MHz PCI on my PIII system without a problem.

I don't know a whole lot about the PCI mhz as i'm pretty new to the whole overclocking thing, but I do know that at 166fsb a divider kicks in returning it to the regular mhz. When I try to set my fsb to 172, I get bsod's.

What would the PCI mhz be at 172?

if you have a 1/5th divider, then your pci is 172/5= about 34-35mhz.

 

[Egrimm]

Originally posted by: VeggieManthe other crteative cards are this good too.. as long as you dont go with an ISA one..

Had no problems with a SB AWE64 on an oc'ed Celeron333 @ 416 (83Mhz fsb/agp, 41.5Mhz pci). An SBLive! worked fine on this too.
Had an Audigy running at 38Mhz pci without problems.
Haven't tried my Audigy2 at a high pci since my current mobo have a agp/pci lock

 

[THUGSROOK]

i had a sb live 5.1 running @ 41.5mhz PCI without any problems.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

Just got the Audigy2 today, will install tomorrow. This card looks cool btw.

 

[lookin4dlz]

Had my Soundblaster Live! 5.1 oem card running at 41.5MHz bus for a couple of years with no problem. Same card's now in a 845PE board w/ pci lock, still going

 

[OverVolt]

My SB Live! 5.1 took 38.7Mhz pci without a hitch nice card!!!

 

[ChrisADuffy]

Thought I would update - the Audigy 2 has no problems with overclocking in my setup. I am running my P4 2.4B at 2.7Ghz right now and will be moving up the FSB some more tonight.