Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
Like i said before, your words mean nothing intill you can back it up with some hard facts, like Dino said, it has been the case with previous chipsets, both intel and nvidia to give better numbers when benching, for everyday use, i agree, overclocking your pci-e bus is pointless, but not when you are trying to get high numbers you need every little fps.
Quote Originally Posted by cstkl1 View Post
dejan overclocking pcie bus does allow u to go higher bclk

but this also depends on ioh/ich voltage

and certain cards like the 9000 series for nvidia their clock gen is based on pcie clock. clear example would be 9800gx2.

also if u want to see the relationship of the board clockgen lookup in set fsb.
when u hit a certain bclk hang.
when u reboot try then again before increasing to that bclk that hang. increase the pcie clock.

for 3dmark benching
example 9800gx2 756/1654/2200 on pcie 100
is the same as 702/1584/2200 on pcie 110. requires less voltage also.

try it.

PS GAR u crack me up kekekek
feel like putting that on a siggy
Read the second quote there. I did not say that PCI-E makes no difference, I said that you can get the same effect by OCing your graphics card. OCing PCI-E will basically OC your graphics bus as well so you get higher performance. Same can be done by overclocking the graphics on their own without causing problems for the rest of the system. OCing PCI-E is plain dumb, and very much pointless.

Now, on the note of higher BCLK being possible by OCing the PCI-E, you will first and foremost need a BCLK friendly chip, and then and only then will you have any use of pushing up the PCI-E to get higher BCLK. Not to mention that you also need to have a half-decent board.