Pulsar and CPU overclocking

ernest@303.nu · Post by **ernest@303.nu** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 10:38 am

Anyone have experience or advices with using the CW-products with an overclocked CPU?

I've always been OC'ing my systems as much as possible (I still have this old Celeron 300a system working stable at 462.5MHz

, with Reason and softsynths s/pdiffed to Creamware), but since I got my Pulsar, I didn't even try it because of it's apparent PCI-timing sensibility (at least that's what they say...)

But now I really feel like trying it anyway

, will do so when I find a spare hour and report the results. I can use a couple of hundred additional MHz for Logic and plugins...
But I'm curious what your experiences are regarding this OC-business in combination with Creamware-cards.

My current setup: PIV-1.7 and Asus p4b

I've already found a PlanetZ 2001-thread on OC'ing, stating some interesting facts, like early CW-documentation mentioning a maximum 44 MHz for the PCI-bus, and the benefits of faster memory access (reverbs, samplers) through faster bus-speeds

OT: I 'overclocked' my Sony CD-RW drive today, it now burns at 10x instead of 8x!
It's now running on HP-firmware

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Fede · Post by **Fede** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 12:51 pm

hi, don't you know anything about overclocking other cdrw drives i.e. yamaha 8424?
thnx

musquash · Post by **musquash** » Sun Jun 02, 2002 2:01 am

maybe you find something valuable here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ha007/justcdr ... rclock.htm

ernest@303.nu · Post by **ernest@303.nu** » Sun Jun 02, 2002 10:22 am

Got my info from http://cdrinfo.com/tips/hardware_oc.shtml

no mentioning of Yamaha drives however

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Sun Jun 02, 2002 1:06 pm

Well hi there,

I'm running an OC'ed DAW
tualeron 1200 at 1600... I wanted it to go that high because then the pci bus would keep in spec and my cw cards wouldn't have any problems running in the system ... that's because at the fsb 133 instead of 100 the divider switches from 1/3 to 1/4 so that pci bus keeps 33 mhz... Don't know bout your board though some boards have lock options on pci busses ... Might check that out for yours if it doesn't have it then the only overclock would be to raise fsb from 4*100 to 4*133 to keep pci and agp in spec. But that really depends on the processor and the ram your using if it will be possible ...

Greetz

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:11 am

With Some of new P4 northwood boards you can OC the FSB while leaving the PCI bus at standard speed. Asus and Abit have this feature. its very handy for overclocking without worrying about your PCI cards crashing or causing a crash.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:39 pm

Did you guys notice CW actually states in treir manual that OC'ing PCI bus to 37MHz could let Pulsar running fine? You could give it a try, I'm running at 145MHz FSB since