Basically i want to know how far a FX 5900 XT, and a Maxtor SATA drive will stand the bus being outa spec, whats the max they will take?
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Basically i want to know how far a FX 5900 XT, and a Maxtor SATA drive will stand the bus being outa spec, whats the max they will take?
nVidia card most of the times take pretty high agp busses upto 80 mhz or higher.
From the maxtor drives I'm not sure, but I thought they didn't like it as much as the nVidia video cards. However you could use a promise TX2 controller to avoid trouble with drives, since those controller cards take pci busses upto 66 mhz
I've run the WD raptors at 230FSB without locks, but I dont know if the maxtors can take it.
It all depends on the chipset, I can run my X800 Pro up to 88mhz and got some pretty nice performance boosts but I can only run my WD Raptor 34mhz any higher and it wouldnt find it, so I said byebye to that and stuck with the increased 3D performance.
Wow, the busses aren't locked on A64 boards ?
depends on the board and bios
Doesn't the bus the hd can take really depend on the sata controller.. cause it's the one who craps out, not the actual harddrive tmk.
well the board i've got is a Asus K8VSE and the drive is on the VIA controller
I don't think that your maxtor drive is going to take high pci-busses.Quote:
Originally posted by TheJackal
well the board i've got is a Asus K8VSE and the drive is on the VIA controller
I ran a 120Gig Maxtor Diamond 9 on a Asus K8V Deluxe, and it died a couple of weeks later after about 10 corrupt wininstalls.
the spot where the drive maxxed out was 222MHz HTT.
Got a Seagate Barracuda 7 as replacement, and that drive also maxxed about 220MHz
I decided to stop benching with a SATA drive :p: and sold the bord.
With a NForce3, you get a new divider @ 233, 266 and probably 300MHz HTT so for gaming I run 240x10 on a Gigabyte K8NNXP NF3-150 without having any issues with the SATA Seagate :)
Jep, i used the onboard viaQuote:
Originally posted by µnrealneo²
220-223 is typical of the integrated VIA SATA controller, which I am assuming you were using by looking at those numbers.
A promise UTRA ATA133 controller for my ide drive crapped out at about 250/260 (old 4 gig drive, without the controller it was giving troubles @ 235)
I dont start corrupting my IDE drive till around 270, gotta love that high AGP bus speed, really helps out.
will the promise work with a single drive? had trouble getting it to pick it up
It all depends on the harddrive which you use.Quote:
Originally posted by =[PULSAR]=
I dont start corrupting my IDE drive till around 270, gotta love that high AGP bus speed, really helps out.
@ my school, they use 7200RPM Seagate barracuda V's (20gig) and they rock :D
I went all up to 52MHz pci bus without any problems (Dell P4 1,8gig, i845)
Screenshot :p:
http://www.voidyourwarranty.nl/image...al_20rsjpg.JPG
http://www.voidyourwarranty.nl/image...inal_20jpg.JPG
It was still benchable @ 2650MHz in SuperPi, probably didn't went higher because of temps. Stock cooled with the usual passive heatsink and an airduct to a 80mm fan