Fast Writes, TO disable or enable? that is the question. Please Read!!

[dguy6789]

My A7N8X nforce 2 has the ability for fast writes, and my 9000 pro drivers let me enable it if i want, should i enable it? should i test it, or what?

 

[Viper96720]

start click run and type smartgart. Then test if it doesn't enable it then don't.

 

[Rand]

Personally I'd leave it disabled.
It very seldom yields any performance gain, and even when it does it's not even remotely significant.
It tends to cause stability problems in a very substantial number of systems. Peak overclockability is also often diminished with FW enabled.

The extremely minimal gains arent worth the potential hassles IMHO.

Depending on the motherboard chipset it has even been known to cause a small performance loss in a few cases, that tends to be related to incomplete support for FW on the AGP bridge however.