What's my PCI bus speed & will it affect a scsi card at 160fsb?

blackhawk

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Have an Epox 8k7a running at 160fsb and wonder if it would give a scsi card problems as I'd like to get a scsi cdrw. How about my agp vid card? As I've been tweaking things a bit I'm noticing the vid card is running a lot hotter. Its an asus 6800 with a blorb on it and I've been thinking of switching it with my V 5500. Which vid would handle the the higher agp better?
 

Boonesmi

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pci is meant to run at 33mhz it runs at 1/4th the fsb. 133 divided by 4 = 33mhz

if you run your fsb at 160 then your pci is running at 40mhz. and yes this could cause problems with a scsi card, some pci cards can handle highly overclocked busses and some cant. no telling until you try it with that particular card
 

mastertech01

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Adaptec cards handle high fsb pretty well but that is really pushing it and leaves you at high risk for errors IMHO