I am stuck in the distant past: have two computers based on ABIT IC7 motherboards and two based on ABIT IS7 motherboards. All have Northwood Pentium processors that are overclocked to varying degrees. All are aircooled with humungous coolers. The machine I am typing this on has a 3 Ghz CPU which has been running stably at 3.6 GHz for years. The oldest of the lot has a 1.8 GHz CPU that has happily run at 2.4 GHz forever -- that is a 33.3% overclock. By stable I mean they can run Prime 95 indefinitely without error.
Back when the IC7 and the IS7 motherboards were being manufactured, IDE was the norm, although there is an onboard SATA controller that was intended for the "new fangled" RAID configurations. I now have three of the Western Digital black 640 GB SATA hard drives which are super fast. I have tried to get several of the systems to overclock using one of the SATA drives and can't get any board to go very far. I can boot from a SATA drive OK, but cannot overclock enough to bother mentioning -- even on the board that happily allows a 33.3% overclock with a Seagate IDE drive.
From reading on net, this is apparently due to limitations of the SATA controllers ABIT was using in those days. A FSB overclock -- which is all you have available when using locked Intel processors -- pushes the SATA bus out of spec.
My question: Is it possible to use some third party SATA controller and get overclocks that the board and the CPU can get with an IDE drive? If so, what controller works? I bought one such PCI to SATA controller on which I can see the SATA drive and use it as an archive drive, but have been unable to boot from it.
Thanks.
Back when the IC7 and the IS7 motherboards were being manufactured, IDE was the norm, although there is an onboard SATA controller that was intended for the "new fangled" RAID configurations. I now have three of the Western Digital black 640 GB SATA hard drives which are super fast. I have tried to get several of the systems to overclock using one of the SATA drives and can't get any board to go very far. I can boot from a SATA drive OK, but cannot overclock enough to bother mentioning -- even on the board that happily allows a 33.3% overclock with a Seagate IDE drive.
From reading on net, this is apparently due to limitations of the SATA controllers ABIT was using in those days. A FSB overclock -- which is all you have available when using locked Intel processors -- pushes the SATA bus out of spec.
My question: Is it possible to use some third party SATA controller and get overclocks that the board and the CPU can get with an IDE drive? If so, what controller works? I bought one such PCI to SATA controller on which I can see the SATA drive and use it as an archive drive, but have been unable to boot from it.
Thanks.
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