First post, by jesolo
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I would like to hear peoples thoughts about the overclocking of the PCI bus from the standard 33 MHz to 40 MHz.
To provide some context:
I recently acquired an Asus PVI-486SP3 motherboard.
It is my understanding that this motherboard does not have a PCI divider, which means that if you set the front side bus of the CPU to 40 MHz, the PCI bus also runs at 40 MHz (which is outside the standard specification).
I only have my PCI graphics card (currently an ATI Rage II) plugged into the PCI slot. My sound card runs off the ISA bus, which the bios does have a divider for.
Would it be Ok to run the PCI graphics card in the long run at 40 MHz?
Could this have an impact on the overall life span of the card or, did the designers make provision to a certain extent for the PCI card to run at a slightly higher frequency?