I have a cheap pci via chipset sata card. It hates anything over 40mhz in the pci bus (have year to play with bus latency.) and the card craps out and takes the hdd's file system with it.
Does anyone know of any good pci sata cards that don't mind a good overclock?
Why overclock?
wrote:Why overclock?
...To go faster?
It appears that 66MHz S-ATA PCI bus variants exist. But check if yours already is one (maybe something else can't keep up). Oh, and it's better to just get a faster CPU than to overclock 😀
1+1=10
wrote:wrote:Why overclock?
...To go faster?
I assume there's a more specific goal than that. If it's a legacy system for old games, why overclock? And if OC, why in a way that also changes the PCI speed?
wrote:wrote:wrote:Why overclock?
...To go faster?
I assume there's a more specific goal than that. If it's a legacy system for old games, why overclock? And if OC, why in a way that also changes the PCI speed?
Meh, there are sometimes special reasons to overclock. For instance, I always use my celeron 300A system at 100FSB. 😀
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
100 FSB on any competent chipset doesn't overclock PCI or AGP buses.
All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder
wrote:I have a cheap pci via chipset sata card. It hates anything over 40mhz in the pci bus (have year to play with bus latency.) and the card craps out and takes the hdd's file system with it.
Oh yeah. Had an overclocked Celeron as a file server with all my data on a 500 GB SATA drive on this controller. Didn't turn out well.
I'm running a 1.4ghz Piii with PC-166 ram. I'd like to run the fsb at 166mhz
I already checked all my parts, that and my mobo has a divider up to 166mhz for the agp buss and up to 133fsb for the pci bus.
wrote:It appears that 66MHz S-ATA PCI bus variants exist. But check if yours already is one (maybe something else can't keep up). Oh, and it's better to just get a faster CPU than to overclock 😀
Thanks for the info, never thought about getting a 66mhz card. As for getting a faster cpu, that's not always the best choice for preference. The higher fsb and ram speeds make a difference and simply dropping in a faster cpu does not necessarily speed up the ram or fsb. That and overclocking is s big part of the retro computer hobby for me.
