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Old 11-08-2006
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PCI-E Lock

If a motherboard has a PCI-E lock (for overclocking), if I use the PCI-E lock, will that also lock the speed of the regular PCI bus too?
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Old 11-08-2006
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I believe so, my board(A8N32-SLI Deluxe) works like this.
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Old 11-08-2006
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They both operate at different frequencies and need to be locked to the following when overclocking.

PCI-E 100Mhz
PCI 33.33Mhz
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Old 11-08-2006
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Ok, I know that they need to be locked at 100 and 33.33 but what I was wondering is if the PCI-E lock also locks the regular PCI.
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Old 11-09-2006
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Erm....no it doesn't
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Old 11-09-2006
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Ok, well then does anyone know if the P5NSLI Asus mobo has a PCI lock?
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Old 11-13-2006
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Erm....no it doesn't
Are you absolutely sure?

My board (confirmed by many OC'ers) locks the regular PCI frequency when the PCI-E is locked at 100.

And it's also an ASUS board, so yours probably does as well MetalX, but don't quote me on this lol.
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Old 11-13-2006
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Ok, thanks, well I'm still not SURE that it has a lock but overclocking from 1.86GHz to 2.4GHz using the system bus pretty much rules out anything else.
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