Do PCI locks really work?

[prometheus]

Just posted a review that looks at whether PCI locks are really working on Athlon 64 and P4 motherboards. You can catch PCI Speed and Overclocking: A Closer Look at A64 and P4 Chipsets at http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1968

[shimmishim]

nice article! :)

good to see pci lock works on p4's.... but not on a64's :(

[Mikki]

I'd be curious to see if Asus' AMD board has a working lock, all their boards I've tested have had a rock-solid lock...tho I'm sure that chipsets may cause that to vary a bit.

Another nice article prom!! :wave:

[Flamer]

Very good info prom:) As expected the althon 64 boards do not lock:(

[thesaucier]

Abit is close to getting a bios out for the KV8 Pro that will be the first to have an agp/pci lock . It should be out shortly.