Msi neo4 plat, sb audigy 2, max overclock, and xmod bios 1.b

hi,
sys as in sig.
i could oc my cpu to about 2400 stable @1.45+6.6% and run everything under the sun. recently i read a thread here or @ rage3d saying something along the lines that audigy 2 does interfere with the max oc achieved.
So i set out to test this theory. I raied fsb from 267 to 270 and ran mark05,06 and super pi. no problems
then i ran dungeon siege 2, cod 2. all crashed with looping sound; symptoms of sb's interferece as described in the thread i read.
I got curious upped vmod to 9.9%, raised fsb to 275. again all "torture" tests run okay, but not the games. infact not many games would last a couple of hours stable.
I am using murdok's xmod 1.b. it has this option in the cell menu; set pci clock. usually it is set to auto. i disabled it. Anyone knows what does this exactly do?
Anyways anyone here knows how to get over this sb thing other than to simply get rid of it??
thanks in advance.

disabled it cuz, i thought that overclocking the cpu caused the audigy 2 to playup (the only card i've on the pci bus)
Since my last post, i've figured out that it was the soundcard causing the issues. I took it out and could reach 280*9, with 1.6 (Vmod).
I plugged the card back in set it to standard acceleration in dxdiag, and all runs well. tinkering with the set pci clock made no difference at all! (i kinda had an idea what it did, but not exactly). so i set it back to enabled.
thanks for ur reply.

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