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- Jul 8, 2003
A long time ago, (that's relative, but a/w) when I started overclocking I couldn't afford the top of the line mobos that had PCI locks. Most of my O/C at that time was on VIA chipsets like the kt600, and all kinds of bad things would happen when your pci bus speed went too high (over 35mhz would start causing hard drive corruption on most of my setups for instance).
Now fast forward, I didn't have these issues on any of my C2D platforms, but here we are with i5. I see several posts in this section referring to increased pci-e speed for more stable overclocks. Wouldn't this cause undue stress on components like graphics cards that rely on that bus? What PCI-e speed is considered "safe" or "tolerable" to your average add in card? I'm not going to risk a very good video card for the sake of 200mhz on my cpu.
Someone please enlighten this wayward soul. Thanks in advance.
Now fast forward, I didn't have these issues on any of my C2D platforms, but here we are with i5. I see several posts in this section referring to increased pci-e speed for more stable overclocks. Wouldn't this cause undue stress on components like graphics cards that rely on that bus? What PCI-e speed is considered "safe" or "tolerable" to your average add in card? I'm not going to risk a very good video card for the sake of 200mhz on my cpu.
Someone please enlighten this wayward soul. Thanks in advance.