has anyone gone from using agp4x back to 2x & what's a reasonable overclock for geforce2 memory speed?

[RayEarth]

I just got a creative labs geforce2 gts, I just applied a reg patch to win98se to run agp4x that I downloaded from viahardware. When using agp4x I noticed no major improve from 2x & my system locked up & PIII 933mhz & was forced to lower to 903mhz. I decided in the end to go back to 2x & increase my speed back to 933mhz. I read that the via chipset isn't as stable as intel's 815 chipset that's why they won't run 4x unless you set the agp divider to manual or use a patch, anyone think this is some what true? & what are you overclocked core/memory speeds for your geforce2, I don't want to overclock too high, I just want a decent overclocked core/memory speed? any suggestion on how fast to set it?

 

[Quickfingerz]

I'd reccomend you to test it yourself because these cards have such a large range of overclock some can overclock 40 mhz higher than others in memory speed.

 

[goophie]

I have a matrox g400 and i force it to 1x for stability reasons. I notice no difference between agp 1x and 2x

are you telling me there's no difference between 2x and 4x? man that sucks, so 1x=2x=4x... does the math work out here? what's the deal?

 

[RayEarth]

I only notice my score go down 100 points in 3dmark2000, besides that, I notice no improvement in speed in games with agp 4x. I'm beginning to think the deal is we pay more for more hype. as homer simpson would say... doh!

 

[duragezic]

Yup, as of now there is little performance gain from using AGP4x. That may change with new games and applications but as of now I wouldn't worry if you can't get your card to run at that for stability or other reasons.

 

[Oyeve]

I had to go down to agp 2x for my asus 6800 dlx card because, i'll be damned if I know why, my Plextor 12x10x32s would not complete a burn even though it is a SCSI drive!!! For some reason when I set up the BIOS to use agp 4x my burner doesnt close the session. This happens in winme and w2k. Weird.