[mythtv-users] tuning two-card systems ?

Maarten mythtv at ultratux.org
Fri Oct 15 21:41:39 UTC 2004


On Friday 15 October 2004 22:55, Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> Maarten,
>
> have you actually tried running the normal FSB speed of 166 and

Yes I did.  Of course, I tried everything _before_ starting to overclock, I'm 
not stupid ;-)  No, I'm 100% sure it is not the overclocking doing this. 

> re-testing to prove it's not caused by overclocking PCI ?  Some boards
> let you lock the PCI bus independently at 33 to prevent problems caused
> by overclocking.  Try a "normal" test first and see if the problem goes
> away.  If you reported a problem on the Linux Kernel list with an
> "overclocked" system you would be sent packing in short order, since
> it's effectively a PEBKAC class problem.

I agree.  I mentioned the overclocking just as trivia as to how I built this 
two-card software encoding system. But I can assure you that the same thing 
happened at normal speed, just with a somewhat higher CPU load then. ;-)

Even then, how would you explain the slight frequency offset (while recording 
et al works fine otherwise) by the fact of overclocking...?  I can imagine a 
lot of things when you start pushing hardware, but this is not one of them...

Maarten

>
> Yan
>

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