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Hello, I have a question about overclocking, I have just overclocked my Core 2 Quad (Q8300) from 2.5 GHz to 3.1 GHz

My motherboard is an AsRock G31m-VS2, in the BIOS settings I put the FSB to 402MHz, with the PCIE freq in auto. The PCIE Freq got to 120 MHz is there any chance to damage my GPU? (I own an MSI GTX 750 ti twin frozr 2GB OC Edition).

 

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wat?

402MHz FSB?

 

Isn't the default 100MHz?

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Oh. Well that sounds scary...

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Oh. Well that sounds scary...

Everything works fine, I got stable FPS on BF4 MP (before it ran like ass), I don't know if PCIE Freq could damage my GPU

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I can't really remember if there's any potential damage associated with raising pci-e speed, but I do remember that I always locked it at 100, or something very near 100.

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The PCI-E Bus frequency affects the PCI-E expansion slots, and the SATA ports as well. Basically everything that is tied to the PCI-E bus.

 

If your PCI-E frequency becomes too high, you could potentially corrupt/damage  your drives or other components. The damage could be permanent.

 

If say... you have a Ethernet card in a PCI-E X1 slot, that gets affected by the overclocking as well. The network card might not operate if the PCI-E frequency is too high.

 

I'd just leave it as at the stock 100MHz. Not worth the extra few MHz and risk killing your HDD's / SSD's or other components.

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Hello, I have a question about overclocking, I have just overclocked my Core 2 Quad (Q8300) from 2.5 GHz to 3.1 GHz

My motherboard is an AsRock G31m-VS2, in the BIOS settings I put the FSB to 402MHz, with the PCIE freq in auto. The PCIE Freq got to 120 MHz is there any chance to damage my GPU? (I own an MSI GTX 750 ti twin frozr 2GB OC Edition).

 

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PSU:CoolerMaster GX 750W (got it in 2011)

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64

your should be able to lock it to 100mhz

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The PCI-E Bus frequency affects the PCI-E expansion slots, and the SATA ports as well.

 

If your PCI-E frequency becomes too high, you could potentially corrupt/damage  your drives.

 

If say... you have a Ethernet card in a PCI-E X1 slot, that gets affected by the overclocking as well. The network card might not operate if the PCI-E frequency is too high.

 

I'd just leave it as at the stock 100MHz. Not worth the extra few MHz and risk killing your HDD's / SSD's.

 

your should be able to lock it to 100mhz

 

I can put it in 100 mhz, but if I do that I can't make my cpu reach 3.1 GHz. I just get a black screen if I leave it in 100

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Everything works fine, I got stable FPS on BF4 MP (before it ran like ass), I don't know if PCIE Freq could damage my GPU

At least its not 666...

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I can put it in 100 mhz, but if I do that I can't make my cpu reach 3.1 GHz. I just get a black screen if I leave it in 100

hmmmmmm. on my older socket 478 board, it has 3 options, manual, auto and fixed. fixed locks it to 100mhz, auto sets it to the same as the cpu and manual is for me to set it. if your board doesn't have a fixed setting and doesn't work at manual then you would think it was designed to go over 100mhz on the pcie. 

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Try running unlinked mode

Unlinked ? there is no such option on my Asus p5e vm-do :( 

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Why revive a dead topic after creating one of your own? Gah.

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Why revive a dead topic after creating one of your own? Gah.

Basically... noone really answered :/ sorry

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