Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:48:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@word.smith.net.au> To: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "Joe Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>, "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>, "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "spork" <spork@super-g.com> Subject: Re: SCSI card used at cdrom.com? Message-ID: <199809211648.JAA11282@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:32:54 EDT." <199809211233.IAA27650@laker.net>
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> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:16:54 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Wont the PCI bus still run at it's 33mhz regardless of what the system bus > >> is and therefor the system bus speed would have no effect on PCI devices? > > > >Generally correct, yes. > > Actually, the correct answer is NO. With the exception of some newer > motherboards, the PCI clock is derived from the system bus speed. Some > newer moboards de-couple the PCI clock from the system bus. One place > to do a little reading is http://www.tomshardware.com/ This place is Overclocker Heaven. If you configure your board correctly, you won't exceed the 33MHz PCI clock limit, and this includes running 100MHz slot 1 processors. > You'll want to research Front Side Bus. Thanks, I know more than I need or want to know about this already. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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