On 2 Jun 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 13:11, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > So what should we do in case of overclocked PCI bus?
> > Get overclocked ATA or try to mess with timings?
>
> You cannot overclock the AMD on chipset IDE or the intel on chipset IDE.
> It doesn't actually matter what you do the system is going to be way out
> of wack. These are chipset bridges rather than card people ram into
> weird bits of hardware.
Please explain further, so in general AMD, Intel must not be overclocked?
Beacause if they are they are screwed (not only IDE)...?
> The VIA stuff and the Promise it makes some sense to try because they
> may be shoved in boxes with a 25MHz PCI clock, or in a few cases a
> horribly broke 37.5/41Mhz bus from the early chipsets that had 'idiot
> only' 75/83Mhz FSB options
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