Increasing FSB. How far?

[mcbugzz]

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP 1500+
ASUS A7V266 DDR
256 MB DDR RAM (Samsung, non CL-2)

I want to speed up the FSB a little, but the BIOS only allows to increase FSB and PCI at the same time. What kind of PCI freq is dangerous for my HDD, DVD-ROM, CD-RW devices and PCI cards (Audigy and Realtek network adapter)?

How fast I can go while still staying safe?

Thanx


McBugzz

 

[girish]

A7V266 doesnt allow you to set PCI/FSB ratios, nor does it support 1/5 PCI divider.

So whatever FSB you set, dont let your PCI speeds go past 40~42 MHz, thats 160-166 MHz on the FSB. Theres no problem with most of the devices, but IDE tends to trash your data at high transfer speeds. Plus, make sure you have a good AGP card, that can work at above 90 MHz, usually AGP speed is 1/2 or 2/3 of FSB, in this case its 1/2 which makes AGP speed 83 MHz. Many older AGP cards fail at these speeds.

girish

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[mcbugzz]

I have a GF4 Ti 4400 Deluxe, so that's good enough, I guess.

How soon does IDE start trashing my data? After 42 MHz?


McBugzz

 

[svol]

Depends on the quality of the SouthBridge... just keep away from 40MHz PCI (above 160MHz FSB) to be save.

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[mcbugzz]

Okay, is 38MHz PCI safe?

I'm currently running at 145/36 FSB/PCI and no problems so far. Not even any temperature changes.


McBugzz

 

[girish]

he has one of the infamous south bridge lines, the VIA southbridges, they sometimes trash data even at nominal speeds.

just make sure you have the latest VIA 4in1 driver updates

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[svol]

38Mhz should be safe.

My PC eats so much money that I'm in 'desperate' need of it to buy PC3500 RAM, help Svol with his OC project!
--- PM me for information.