Why does lowering PCI-E bandwidth disable internet?

[tonyluu]

I lowered the standard PCI-E 100MHz down to 95 and could run 3DMark 06 & Vantage still but couldn't connect to the internet, bumped it up to 100MHz and everything works fine...

 

[Bakku]

you probably shorted your ISP server by doing that. I know I did that once before, scared as hell, almost shit my pants.

wait 5 minutes then it'll recover.

 

[ilal2ielli]

Why do you need to lower your PCI-E clock down anyway?

 

[Direfox]

Wondering that also. I have never changed it from 100, I assume your overclocking your video card?

 

[no2censorship]

you probably shorted your ISP server by doing that. I know I did that once before, scared as hell, almost shit my pants.

wait 5 minutes then it'll recover.

LMFAO!

 

[tonyluu]

I was assuming that lowering the PCI-E clock would leave less load on the NB resulting in higher memory clocks(every MHz counts)

I'm going for the Gigabyte DDR2 overclocking contest

 

[kllrnohj]

I lowered the standard PCI-E 100MHz down to 95 and could run 3DMark 06 & Vantage still but couldn't connect to the internet, bumped it up to 100MHz and everything works fine...

Perhaps the ethernet card is on the PCI-E bus as well, and crapped out

 

[Brahmzy]

Perhaps the ethernet card is on the PCI-E bus as well, and crapped out

Yup. On most all the newer boards (cetainly x58) the NIC(s) are tied with the PCI-E bus..