PCI Overclock

godinman · 15 May 2008 at 16:22

Got an asus p5n-d mobo, theres an option to overclock the pci? Wondering if theres any point lol. Am planning on overclocking my 8800gtx with ntune, is this good software to OC it?

Thanks

weescott · 15 May 2008 at 16:36

You can clock the PCI upto 115mhz with a SATA drive or upto 125mhz with an IDE drive. But generally speaking no, don't bother.

Rivatuner allows you to clock the shader too.

godinman · 15 May 2008 at 16:52

yeah okays, might OC with rivatuner, 3dMark it, then OC the PCI to 115 and see if theres a difference...

Thanks!! If in the unlikely circumstance it makes the slightest bit of difference i'll tell you guys

Cheers

pugheaven · 15 May 2008 at 17:23

godinman said:
yeah okays, might OC with rivatuner, 3dMark it, then OC the PCI to 115 and see if theres a difference...

Thanks!! If in the unlikely circumstance it makes the slightest bit of difference i'll tell you guys

Cheers

I have the same board mate... and I don't bother with the PCI bus, just don't see the point I'll be honest. However, I use Rivatuner and have my BFG 8800GT to 725/1776/2200 completly 100% artifact free, runs like a dream and has never crashed, anymore though on the core and it gets a little flakey, must throttle like as the performance actually goes down on 3DMark06.

For your interest, I got 15,097 3DMark06 scores with a 3.3ghz Q6600 and the 8800GT, there's something for you to target and probably beat as it isn't that good a score judging by some of these maniacs

Cheers
Pug