Best Sound Card for Overclocking.

[ChrisADuffy]

I am looking for a sound card that will not limit my overclocking too much. Any suggestions or expierences? Thanks.

[Ri0_6667]

Hehehehehehhehehehe, although what im sure your saying is what can take the most pci voltage/mhz it just sounds funny anyways. My live card has taken 60mhz but thats really not much. still like the card, cheap and effective eax

[spazzkid]

almost all sound cards could take high pci bus. i wud say go for a creative, it didnt gave me probs on fsb's 160 and above

[SemiCycle]

Originally posted by Ri0_6667
Hehehehehehhehehehe, although what im sure your saying is what can take the most pci voltage/mhz it just sounds funny anyways. My live card has taken 60mhz but thats really not much. still like the card, cheap and effective eax

60MHZ on the PCI bus, nope, sorry, but that isn't possible.
Almost no PCI device operates reliably beyond 42Mhz. That is why you see all these wonderful PCI dividers.

[Ri0_6667]

SORRY AND IM NOT ARGUEING but my 2.0a in a crap aopen board with no ratios went to 58mhz pci bus for every fsb i went up it gained a pci / agp mhz and i got it to 2.5

[HeXenViRii]

creative sound blaster 64AWE ISA . all the pci boards i had were messing up @ 155 , with the SB 64AWE crystal clear ...

[LittlePiggie]

Originally posted by HeXenViRii
creative sound blaster 64AWE ISA . all the pci boards i had were messing up @ 155 , with the SB 64AWE crystal clear ...


hear hear!! I had a 64awe for a while and it was real nice.

[SemiCycle]

Originally posted by Ri0_6667
SORRY AND IM NOT ARGUEING but my 2.0a in a crap aopen board with no ratios went to 58mhz pci bus for every fsb i went up it gained a pci / agp mhz and i got it to 2.5

I have 3 questions for you

What is your FSB running at?
What is your CPU running at
What mulitplier are you using

[Ri0_6667]

my cpu "was" at 125fsb with a multiplyer of 20 and 2503 or something like that. my onboard died after a while but my live was good

[SemiCycle]

Originally posted by Ri0_6667
my cpu "was" at 125fsb with a multiplyer of 20 and 2503 or something like that. my onboard died after a while but my live was good

This means you PCI bus was either running at one of the following

125 / 3 = 41.6

or

125 / 4 = 31.25Mhz

If it is the top one, then you are right around the limit I said in my first post in this thread

[Ri0_6667]

still im pretty sure that it was somewhere much higher then that, i will check tomorrow if possible gtg now

[OC-Master]

The Sound Blaster Audigy can handle up to 45MHz PCI bus without loosing stability. I saw this on a hardcore OC review awhile back.

I'm not sure about the Audigy2 but I bet the standards are just as high.


OC-Master

[SemiCycle]

Check these out :

http://www.overclockers.com/articles555/
http://www.overclockers.com/articles497/index03.asp
http://www.overclockers.com/articles554/

[RangerJoe]

the audigy im using is taking my 192 fsb just fine..i dunno what psi speed that it..i dont know the formula to find it out, but im using 5:1 dividers

[OC-Master]

Originally posted by RangerJoe
the audigy im using is taking my 192 fsb just fine..i dunno what psi speed that it..i dont know the formula to find it out, but im using 5:1 dividers

192 / 5 = 38.4MHz

[RangerJoe]

oh, well thats pretty simple..thanks dood, i thought it would be alot higher than that..just wait till i get 8.5x225...waaaa

[Mr.DLucey]

Originally posted by Ri0_6667
Hehehehehehhehehehe, although what im sure your saying is what can take the most pci voltage/mhz it just sounds funny anyways. My live card has taken 60mhz but thats really not much. still like the card, cheap and effective eax


Did it sound like "Alvin and the Chipmunks"?

[Mr. Chambers]

lol... um 60mhz PCI bus eh? :D anyways, i'd say go for a creative card, my audigy has ran at 165/4 = 41.25mhz just fine for alittle over 2 weeks...

[ChrisADuffy]

Thanks for the constructive feedback and 60HZ...unheard of on the PCI bus. PCI bus normally runs at 33mhz. You can not run it at 60mhz, if you did imagine what your AGP bus would be running at. Now that's scarry.:D

[RuKK]

What about 50Mhz PCI? My KR7A only has 4/1 and 3/1 FSB/PCI dividers, so at 200 FSB..

[SemiCycle]

Originally posted by RuKK
What about 50Mhz PCI? My KR7A only has 4/1 and 3/1 FSB/PCI dividers, so at 200 FSB..

Sorry, you will NEVER get your board up to a 200Mhz FSB speed if it only has those dividers. Be happy if you can get to 160Mhz. I would say the max you will reach if nothing else fails will be in the 170 range.

[Cullam3n]

It's really a luck of the draw, but most of them will take it up to about 37 mhz or so.

-PC