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Safe PCI/AGP clock

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What is generally the highest perfectly safe PCI/AGP clock? I've got a Game Theater XP sound card, Radeon8500, and WD Special Edition 80GB right now.
 
Its a question of how far your individual devices will go before they crap out on ya. There are plenty of PCI cards, video cards, and hard drives that can handle a 40mhz PCI speed and 80mhz AGP speed, but if you have on sensitive device that craps out at 35, then thats as far of an overclock as your systems gonna get.

To single out the problem, try overclocking with as little devices as possible in the system (just video card and hd) and see what the max overclock is with them. Then add in a card one by one and see if everything works. If so, then either your hd or video card or processor is limiting you.
 
Tha fact is you will be really pushing it with even most harddrives to no develp corruption or possibly damaginging them with 40mhz pci...Not advisable...I personally use 37mhz as my limit...With a 1/5 divider I would say the limit I would go is 180-185 and then adjust my multiplier accordingly...At 200 the pci will be 40mhz and you can try it but I have seen with 2 diff harddrives I have owned that eventually I developed some corruption of files resulting in winxp recoveries. Once I switched to intel platforms and locking agp/pci I have never seen that type of thing again in my ocs and at speeds without a lock that I would have had high pci clock...
 
sometimes on board chipset stuff can be issue...ie usb controllers, raid controllers....

Also a pci ata133 card or something could be an issue....

Disable usb right now and all onboard stuff...disconnect all non-essential ide devices as well..

What is the brand of HDD?? What is the brand of Vid card??
 
It's either the HD or an onboard raid/ata100 controller. I dunno if you have one, but that's what is keeping me at 37 pci. A failure to boot into windows or blue screen error messages are a good indicator that it's the HD or controller.
 
I never go above 38Mhz PCI and 76Mhz AGP. Juz what i do. only 148Fsb on some lousy Gigabyte board totally stable (prime for 36hours)
 
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