What components will do the 150/160 FSB ?????

[daver343]

I have a Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
ATI Radeon 32mb DDR
NIC for DSL
Seagate Barracuda II 15gig
and I'll be using the Asus CUV4X-C.

You think this stuff will do the 150/160 FSB speed??
I ordered a 800E but if they can't get it, I'll have to get a P!!! EB.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Hi..
As im sure you may aware of this but not all hardware may work well due to such high fsb but most of us overclockers do have them running at 150+fsb. Like mine.. abit BE6-2 with SB Live card, slowy digicom 56k modem, GeForce2 GTS, and my Seagate Baracudda 7200rpm works fine at 152- 155fsb.

Your SB Live X-Gamer should work at that FSB fine..
I can't guarantee on the NIC card as some of them might struggle at such fsb, but I doubt you'll have trouble.
What speed is your Seagate baracudda HD? I know that some Baracudda HD's including mine acts up sometimes when you cold-boot. Once you get it running, it runs ultimately. :*
Asus CUV4X is a sweet OC'ing board, no problem there :)

Like I said, no guarantee.. but I really think you'll have no problem and be sure that you have some excellent RAM that will enable you to OC that high.

One more thing... many older P3 800e's dont overclock well. Many of older ones didn't make it past 1Ghz. As the time has gone by, the newer steppings of some ofthese chips have become very overclockable.. some will go way over 1Ghz easily. This also applies to some of the newer 800EB's.. I have seen some of the 800EB owners reach or surpass 1Ghz oh dear..

700E used to be the king of overclock until not long ago.. but things have changed a little. Those new 800E/EB, 933, and 1000EB can also overclock very well.. So if you're getting the latest 800 chip, you may good luck getting over 1Ghz.

[ken257]

I have a Radeon card and it bombs out at 146fsb so check and see what yours does, could be a bottelneck.

Here is the combo that got me to 166fsb.

Asus CUSL2-C this is my favorite oc mobo for Intel. I like Intel chipsets better then Via. The Intel 815 on this mobo will outperform via's offerings + the OC options in bios are great.

384meg Muskin Rev 3 ram runs Cas 2 at 166

Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

Intel 100 base nic

SBLive Gamer

The cpu I used in this system was an 866eb, although that chip would only make 160fsb with 100% stability, the rest of the components were verified stable to 166 with a different cpu previous to installing the 866.

[H@rdc0re]

check my sig for the lowdown on what can do 167 fsb.

cheers

[Kingslayer]

It's not as much as the FSB as it is your PCI bus. I'm lucky, with the VP-6 I can drop mine pretty low and keep everything within spec, even up to 160 Mhz. Once you get close to 40Mhz on your PCI bus, things start to get kinky. The first thing to go is usually the NIC. Your Radeon should handle it, as should your Live. You didn't specify what NIC you have. That would be the only thing that will slow you down if you are getting close or above 40 Mhz in your PCI bus.

[Phil]

It would be nice to see a component database in which we could assess the maximum fsb of most components, say for example I submit my machine details and maximum fsb and those values are listed, then someone submits a differant spec but with say the same hardrive that gets a higher speed then my record for the hardrive is replaced and so on.
Or is there already something like that?

[ken257]

The component database is a very good idea! It would be nice to be able to look up a particular item and have a report something like

10% reach 160+
20% 150-159
and so on

Would be very handy to know what the odds are before making a perchasing decision. I think there are enough of us here that have played around with a good amount of hardware, we could make that DB if we set are minds to it.

[Phil]

I'll ask spode what he thinkgs to setting one up on spodesabode
you never know in a couple of weeks we might have one running.

[outhouse]

In the tips section it will tell you this too but just because someone else has luck with high FSB does not mean you will, you can take the same cards and one may overclock well and the other may not at all, its more ot less luck of the draw. So the only real way is for you to actualy try but FFFN is rite the nic would be the one I would worry the most about.

[Phil]

But a db like this would be useful to quickly glance over to see which component is most likely to be holding you back especially as most cards of the same brand probabally max out at similar levels

[Kingslayer]

Well if you do have someone set up a database please remember that this has absolutely nothing to do with your FSB speed. It is your PCI bus speed that matters.

You can do 150Mhz and stuff starts to blow, I can get up to 160, because I can offset my PCI bus speed and you can't. I have had all of my cards take a 160 Mhz FSB becuase my PCI bus is offset from my FSB. I am only running about 36Mhz through my PCI bus.

PCI bus is the issue, not FSB.

[Phil]

but like I said the pci bus speed is derrived from the fsb! and as far as I know the best devider available is 1/4 unless anyone else knows differant.

[ken257]

Running a high PCI clock is nothing new. About 2 years ago I started doing this with a BP6 running 83fsb with 1/2 pci divider. Ever since then I have been weeding out cards that don't deliver the goods. I find that there are very few cards that I buy today that will not make a 40mhz pci anyway, or it could be that I have just been lucky?

[Phil]

sounds like you just got lucky. Many people successfully run them this high but it's a sure bet that when some one complains about not being able to reach a high clock speed that theres a pci component to blame for it.