K8NS Ultra: are sata ports locked to pci ? If yes, nvidia ..

Hi

I am going to buy this board for doing some OC. Hopefully some 25%
only, with a winchester 3500+.

My question is for SATA ports: are they locked to pci (which is locked
by chipset) or not.

It has 2 nvidia sata ports and 2 sil3512 sata ports. Which pair is
best (locked) ?

I have the choice of going with IDE or SATA. Maybe I have to go with
IDE, because then locking is fullfilled.

If one uses Clockgen it is my feeling from what I have read at
extreme-forum that there is a fault in clockgen, and one should set
agp to 67 and fsb to 201 in bios, before using clockgen, in order to
have correct locking of pci and agp.

Any comments ?

TIA

John

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:46:48 +0200, JK <johnknuhtsenSP DeleteThis @Mmail.dk>
wrote:

 >Hi
 >
 >I am going to buy this board for doing some OC. Hopefully some 25%
 >only, with a winchester 3500+.
 >
 >My question is for SATA ports: are they locked to pci (which is locked
 >by chipset) or not.
 >
 >It has 2 nvidia sata ports and 2 sil3512 sata ports. Which pair is
 >best (locked) ?
 >
 >I have the choice of going with IDE or SATA. Maybe I have to go with
 >IDE, because then locking is fullfilled.
 >
 >If one uses Clockgen it is my feeling from what I have read at
 >extreme-forum that there is a fault in clockgen, and one should set
 >agp to 67 and fsb to 201 in bios, before using clockgen, in order to
 >have correct locking of pci and agp.
 >

From what I hear from elsewhere (forum) the sil3512 are locked, if one
locks the pci bus, and further set agp to 67, - that will also lock
the agp.

best regards

John<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->