The Straight Goods From Nvdia

[Chill]

Kyle Bennet asks Nvidia sraight up......


Short Bus to OC Land:
We have seen it batted round and round about the nForce2 PCI bus rising or changing as the FSB is overclocked. To our understanding, the PCI bus is fully independent of the FSB and the AGP bus, but today we had the opportunity to ask NVIDIA directly and this was their reply.


"The PCI clock is always nominal on MCP2. The AGP clock may be separately overclocked or left at nominal speed as desired." --Scott Baker, nForce product manager at NVIDIA

So for the record, do what you want with the FSB, the AGP and the PCI, as they are three separate entities.

[Radea]

Heh, nice. Hopefully this will finally get all the doubters to go away :). However I thought I read the EPoX board was the AGP speed / 2 for the PCI. Hmm...Guess I read wrong :P

[gobbo]

THe PCI lock is defo on the Epox 8RDA+ board.

Normally my PCI ATA RAID card can't take more than 180 FSB, but with 8RDA+ i've had it up to 203FSB with no stability problems.

[Radea]

Well, yeah I know that. I just read somewhere else (which could be true actually), that whatever you set the AGP to be, divide that by 2 and thats your PCI bus clock.

[PimpJack]

I think nVidia decides that and not epox. The pci is most likely independant like all other clocks on nf2.