Ryan Underwood schrieb: >On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:33:07AM -0400, Matthew Barber wrote: > > >>generally wants to run at about 33Mhz (unless you have a very new board >>with PCI-X or some such), and AGP at 66Mhz, and these values will >>generally be a fraction of the fsb. So if your fsb is 66Mhz, PCI will >>be 1/2FSB. If it's 100Mhz, PCI will be 1/3. Setting it to 75Mhz may >>cause it to still be in the 66Mhz realm as far as the division is >>concerned, and set PCI to around 38Mhz, which may cause a lot of >>problems. >> >> > <> > Yes, one thing this used to do was to cause data corruption on certain > Maxtor hard drives, at least under windows. I think in linux, you can > pass a idebus= option to the kernel to tell it that the bus is > overclocked. > > Also, even when the PCI bus is run asynchronously, while the data > corruption issues aren't around anymore, there is unfortunately a > latency tradeoff, which may make using a 75MHz/83MHz FSB not even worth > it in the end. > ouch yeah I already knew it is a bad idea .. that wasn't really meant as a recommendation. I might even have killed my old MB that way (didn't have any use for it anyway ... so it wasn't a big loss :))
