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AGP/PCI dividers

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Geomagick

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Does anyone have an idea of what boards are best in terms of the divider flexibility for the AGP/PCI bus.

I use an Athlon XP at the moment and want to get a little bit more out of my system, however I want to do so in a controlled manner without altering the AGP/PCI bus frequencies initially.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 
the nforce 2 has PCI/AGP lock, which makes the PCI/AGP speed at 33/66mhz at any FSB speed
 
Originally posted by: George Powell
Thanks for that.

Now what board.....
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I like my Epox 8RDA+ board. I think the 8RDA3+ is coming out; don't know what new stuff that has though. They still don't have the manual available for download, so I can't see anything about the sound it uses. They list the Cmedia 9739 for sound, but as far as I know, that's just a codec, to convert the digital signals created by the sound processor itself into analog signals that the speakers can use.
Anyway, the 8RDA+ - it might not be the BEST nForce2 board out there(I have seen mixed reports that the Asus A7N8X Deluxe is the best, but I can't attest to that personally), but I certainly like it. The performance is great, it installed easily - the whole system booted perfectly on the first try after I installed everything. The onboard sound is great too - I had a Santa Cruz card, but I sold it, and I don't regret it much. The only issue I've got with this board is that it shares jacks - there's 3 audio jacks:
1) Speakers/Front Speakers
2) Line-In/Rear Speakers
3) Mic/Center,LFE channels

I would have preferred a bracket with the Rear and LFE/Center jacks, instead of the sharing. Oh well. I'll live I guess. I don't play online games much at all anymore - just no time - and that's about all I needed a Mic for, and my Line-In isn't really needed. But that might not be the case for everyone - an avid gamer might have a 5.1 speaker system, and wish to use it and a Microphone at the same time. Can't do that here. (Epox, you reading this?😉)
That, and the lousy thermal interface material under the northbridge chip's heatsink (replace this with some Arctic Silver III) - those are my only gripes about this motherboard. And, it doesn't dispense free Mountain Dew or coffee, but I can live with that too.
 
thanks for that i'll look into it.

Not too worried about sound, was going to get an Audigy 2.

I really miss my old SB live card which I got rid of when I got my Abit AT7 Max board - what a dumb idea that was - but heh.

 
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