Just finished overclocking my Pentium D930 (3.0ghz) on my Gigabyte GA-81945PL-G (945P, pretty basic mobo, somehow only supports 2GB ram and 533DDR) and had a strange experience.
Couldn't get passed 224Mhz on the FSB even though I dropped the memory to DDR400 and tried increasing voltages. Since I k :?: new my CPU should easily reach 3.8Ghz I started tweaking.
During the OC I had my PCI-E set to 100 as is often recommended and I just decided to switch that over to AUTO. The second I did that I could get it to post at 3.8Ghz without a voltage increase!
However now I'm afraid of damaging something, as the PCI-E is set to AUTO I don't know actually what it's set to and am looking for a program that can show it to me.
Does anyone know of such a program?
I'm also interested in whether or not OCing the PCI-E can damage components like the video card, it seems to be running fine now. No artifacts as far as I can tell. It's a 7900GT
Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
Looks like clockgen can show me the PCI-E frequency.
The BIOS set it to 112mhz which is about half my OC in %
I'm actually fine with 112 but I will try and see what the minimum PCI-E I can use is so I don't have to go much higher as my OC progresses.
currently at 245 FSB and moving on!
Couldn't get passed 224Mhz on the FSB even though I dropped the memory to DDR400 and tried increasing voltages. Since I k :?: new my CPU should easily reach 3.8Ghz I started tweaking.
During the OC I had my PCI-E set to 100 as is often recommended and I just decided to switch that over to AUTO. The second I did that I could get it to post at 3.8Ghz without a voltage increase!
However now I'm afraid of damaging something, as the PCI-E is set to AUTO I don't know actually what it's set to and am looking for a program that can show it to me.
Does anyone know of such a program?
I'm also interested in whether or not OCing the PCI-E can damage components like the video card, it seems to be running fine now. No artifacts as far as I can tell. It's a 7900GT
Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
Looks like clockgen can show me the PCI-E frequency.
The BIOS set it to 112mhz which is about half my OC in %
I'm actually fine with 112 but I will try and see what the minimum PCI-E I can use is so I don't have to go much higher as my OC progresses.
currently at 245 FSB and moving on!

