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  • Can Marvel G400 be used in an overclocked PC?

    I have an Asus P3B-F motherboard, 27.3 G
    WD Expert hardisk, and a PIII-450.

    The system runs rock solid at 600 Mhz.
    It overclocks at

    1. 133 FSB/33 Mhz PCI and
    2. 133 FSB/44 Mhz PCI

    Should I expect any problem running the Marvel at the first setting? Is the 44 Mhz
    on the second one a little extreme? Will the
    TV tuner be thrown off by the non-standard
    clock rates?

    Thanks.

  • #2
    You have a BX chipset, so you only get the choice of 1/1 or 2/3 for the AGP clock. If you set it 1/1, you may fry the card, or have to set it to 1x only. If you go 2/3, then you may get away with it running at 88.66MHz(133/.66) and 2x settings. I have read newsgroup posts that say the Max has been stable at 2/3 of 133MHz.

    BUT if I am wrong, please post so Trinity doesn't fry anything!

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    ABIT BP6, 192MB PC100 RAM, dual 366 Celerons oc'd to 550MHz, 3DFXCool GlobalWin FEP32 'Lil Mofo' h/s fans. Marvel G200 PCI, Canopus Pure3DII, 3COM 905B NIC, Buslogic FlashPoint LW Ultra-Wide SCSI, SB16 ISA. Segate Medalist PRO 9.1 GB UW SCSI 7200RPM, Maxtor 20.4GB ATA66 7200RPM 2MB Cache, 8GB tape b/u, IDE 32x CDROM, SCSI 4xwrite/8xread Panasonic CD writer, 4 more various 2GB SCSI drives.
    Tyan Thunder K7, 768MB Registered DDR ECC, 2xMP2200+, Radeon 9700 Pro, Adaptec 2940U2B Ultra2 SCSI, TB Santa Cruz, Pyro 1394DV. RAID 0 stripe set on hacked Promise UltraTX2 with dual WD 120MB SE drives. HP DVD200i DVD+RW drive.

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    • #3
      I contacteed a reviewer who used the Abit BE6-II Mobo at 133 MHz. He was testing an unlocked Coppermine and had it up to appromixately 801 MHz. He would not reveal what video card he was using in his review, but in Email to me acknowledged that it was a vanilla G400. Then I wrote back to confirm that it was running on an AGp bus @ 88 MHz and he also affirmed that.

      Take it for what it's worth and let us know how you do.

      BTW, Abit BX6-2 with 300A clocked in Turbo to 464 MHz @ 2.0 volts. I am about to install my new Marvel G400-TV.

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      jt
      jt

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