Single Sata prevents OC ?

[AnotherGuy]

Hi all... A quick noob question for u all. I have already started ordering my new system... and i was going to get an 80gig Seagate Sata 7200rpm 8mb cache.
I remember some problems used to show up when trying to OC with SATA drives... but dont remember was it only on Raid configurations or even on Single SATA drives. I plan to only have 1 Sata drive as the only hard drive on my system... because i dont need more than that.

Will i have problems OC-ing with it?

 

[Gioron]

Intel or Athlon, and what motherboard/chipset?

Last I heard this was mainly a problem with Intel chips, and it can happen with only 1 SATA drive. The reason being that the latest Intel platform is designed to limit overclocks to 10%, so anything more than that is basicly a kludge that can also result in overclocking various other components besides the CPU (like the memory and PCI bus). Since SATA is very sensitive to the clock you give it, this can cause it to break. In most Athlon 64 systems the SATA bus should be locked at the correct frequency and should cause no problems but there were some first generation chipsets/motherboards that had problems with their PCI and AGP locks and this could cause problems, but I think the latest boards have fixed this.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Yes... I forgot to mention my setup..

msi k8n neo2 Plat.
athlon64 3000+ (939)
1 gig of corsair value

I think now i remember and u are right... it was on the non working pci/agp locks on some 754 VIA mobos. I think that was the only case.

thanks!