overclocking and SATA

[nitenichiryu1]

hello. i plan on overclocking my 3500+ 90nm with a neo2 mobo. i was wondering what the deal was with overclocking and SATA drives. i've been hearing some things about the drives having errors and corrupting data when overclocking. i have a raptor for boot drive and a sata 200gb for storage. should i even overclock if im going to have this problem? or is there a way around it? thanks

 

[NewBlackDak]

Data can happen with ANY type of drive when overclocking. What do I do to guarantee stability?
1. Run memtest on the first boot. Let it loop atleast 3 times.
2. Let 3DMark01 loop for 3-4 hours with Prime95 running in the background. It's very system intensive, and should show any weaknesses.
3. Bootstrap Gentoo. No quicker way to find a problem than a 2-4 hour compile.

 

[Enslaughter]

I've been wondering about this as well. I have a S-ATA150 HD and heard about this issue about overclocking A64 CPUs and having data corruption/loss. Can anyone clear this up?

 

[nitenichiryu1]

hmm..yea the stability tests seem very reliable, but ive heard that these problems primarily affect sata hd's. correct me if im wrong. ive also heard something about changing the ports. does that help anything? thanks

 

[stardust]

If your motherboard doesn't have a PCI lock, then it may be a wise idea to buy a SATA controller card that can handle 66mhz PCI clock. High FSB from overclocking will lead to high PCI bus.I have a Promise Fasttrak S150+ that I used on my old GA-K8N Pro, but now I have a GA-K8NS Pro. I still use this card even though my PCI bus is locked because I didn't feel like reformating.

Bump for for information! Does anyone know if the 925X intel chipset mobo's have locke PCI buses?

 

[nitenichiryu1]

hmm. im not sure if i'll need a controller, because the msi neo2 is supposed to have an effective pci/agp lock...so maybe it shouldnt be a problem? or is there something im missing?

 

[stardust]

When overclocking, set your AGP to 67mhz, that should lock the busses. Be sure to provide a little more voltage to the Chipset and AGP for stability. Also make sure your memory multipliers are correct so you're not running your memory out of spec.

Right now my 3000+ system is running:

300fsb*8.5multi \ 133mhz memory multi (196mhz actual) @ 2-3-2-5

1.65Vcore \ 2.7V mem \ +0.1V chipset

All onboard IDE RAID and SATA RAID disabled. Onboard sound disabled.

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[nitenichiryu1]

thanks. i'll post results as soon as i test everything out