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  1. 07-13-2004, 01:17 PM #1
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    PCI/AGP how far out of spec will they run?

    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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    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
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  3. 07-13-2004, 03:51 PM #3
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    I've run the WD raptors at 230FSB without locks, but I dont know if the maxtors can take it.
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    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.
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    Wow, the busses aren't locked on A64 boards ?
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    depends on the board and bios

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    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.
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    well the board i've got is a Asus K8VSE and the drive is on the VIA controller

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    Originally posted by TheJackal
    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.

    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 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
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    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.
    Jep, i used the onboard via

    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)
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    I dont start corrupting my IDE drive till around 270, gotta love that high AGP bus speed, really helps out.
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  12. 07-14-2004, 11:02 AM #12
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    will the promise work with a single drive? had trouble getting it to pick it up

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    Originally posted by =[PULSAR]=
    I dont start corrupting my IDE drive till around 270, gotta love that high AGP bus speed, really helps out.
    It all depends on the harddrive which you use.

    @ my school, they use 7200RPM Seagate barracuda V's (20gig) and they rock

    I went all up to 52MHz pci bus without any problems (Dell P4 1,8gig, i845)

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