FSB and the AGP/PCI bus help???

[thetruthkc]

hi everyone,

two quick questions..
just got a tbird 1ghz, abit kt7a, and 256mb crucial cl2 ram.

i also have a diamond viper TNT2 Ultra card, and a old Adaptec 2940SCSI pci card.

here's my questions:

1) there is a option on my viper TNT2ultra card to switch it to 4x agp ... should i?

2) i was planning on trying to overclock my system. maybe eventually to 9x133 = 1.2ghz. will that screw up the SCSI card and the AGP? like shorten the life or make the system unstable?

thanks all!

 

[Superdoopercooper]

thetruthkc,

Ok... you have a KT133a MB. And you have 256MB of PC133, right? You're MB is meant to go to 133MHz FSB & 133MHz Ram speed. THe board has build in dividers for the PCI/AGP bus so that no matter if you're running at 100Mhz FSB, or 133MHz FSB, the PCI bus is operating at 33MHz (100/3 or 133/4) and the AGP is running at 66MHz, I think.

If you can enable 4x on the Vid. card... go for it. However, it really wont' get you more FPS or speed than running 2x. 4x is one of those "great in theory, useless in practice" kind of architectures. Meaning, you won't get 2x the speed just by going from 2x to 4x.

You can always go 133 x 7.5 and get the full speed FSB and still run the core at 1GHz.

Hope this helps.