Re: [linux-audio-user] CPU clock - beware

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] CPU clock - beware
From: Stefan Scheffler (stefanscheffler_AT_gmx.net)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2004 - 20:18:16 EEST


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 :))


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