Overclocking an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz

hi newbie,

I have never used that mobo, but it uses an nForce4-SLI chipset so i would find it very hard to believe that it doesn't have a PCI lock. it is probably not labeled "PCI locK"...

the setting may already be locked by default (with an option to manually type in a different value if desired) or it may be termed something like "sync/async" in the FSB/HTT setting.

hope that helps

Oh... I thought you might have had a comp blow up on you of something lol jk. Well i know what you mean. Just the other day, my friend's Dad tried to overclock his P4 2.4 to 3.2... he increased the voltage too much and... well I think he's not gonna wanna try something like that again for awhile.

Ahh didn't help. There's nothing like that!

Only things I can see that might relate are "PCI-E Frequency" which is set to 100 by default(and I left it there) and "PCI Latency" which I left at default of 64.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=468038 Has pictures of all the settings in the BIOS (discluding PCI/PnP Setup). Mind taking a look and seeing if anything migh be what I need? Thanks in advance.

the PCI-E frequency setting should set the speed for the PCI/PCI-E bus. so it is locked by default, just leave it at 100MHz and your CPU/FSB overclocks shouldn't affect the PCI bus.

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Ahh. Thank you very much.

Now I can re-do my OC's.

:grinthumb