Help me Build a list of AGP card capable of running 89mhz or 100mhz

[Peter007]

I have an ABIT BX6-rev2 Motherboard. Since BX Chipset only have 2/3 AGP Divider,

I will be overclocking my AGP card at 89mhz from the norm of 66mhz, if I use the 133 front side bus.

Please help me build a list of 89mhz - 100mhz capable 3D AGP CARD!

Has anyone try the Geforce2/MX/3/4 or Radeon LE/DDR/VE etc......?

I'm trying to avoid buying a PCI Radeon, but that seem to be the best of the worst choice I can make now

 

[oslama]

i have used several vc on my bh6 1.01 w/ p3 700, vantec 2fan hsf, aoc cpu fan on vc's and heavy duty chassis fan


s3 viperII (savage 2000) ran at default (100x7) (112x7)(124 flaky) (133 failed)

s3 540 extreme (s4) (100ran) (112 flakky) (124,133 failed)

elsa geforce256 (w/ bios upg, pentium heatsink) (100 ran) (112ran)(124ran) (133, terrible image quality)

radeon le (w/ ddr bios"7000") (100x7) (112x7)(124 flakky, image tear) (133failed)

visiontek geforce2 GTS **refurb** (100x7) (112flakky)(124failed)(133failed)

legend ran= , flakky = d3d crash, failed = noboot/blank screen. ###x7 = fsb.

note: the geforce2 did initially run at 124fsb but progressively kept "blanking" on d3d

currently, stably running the radeon oced to 198core and mem at 124fsb in a server sized case.

 

[Peter007]

Wow, nice job

So I guess Geforce 256 is very reliable, then fellow by S3-Viper
I had some horrilbe experience with the original S3-Savage

also, when you said Success/Flacky/Fail, I assume you mean you were able to play
3D Game No-Problem right???

I have a Matrox G400 Dual Head. It will do about 95mhz, but only Window Apps, no 3D Games

Anyone else with more input?

Also is radeon le (w/ ddr bios) the same thing as Radeon DDR?
Is it this simple to convert a Radeon LE into a normal DDR version, without the REG-HACK?

 

[merlocka]

Ive had both a Geforce2 GTS and a Radeon LE running at 2x AGP at 100MHz. This was on a Soyo BX board FSB 150MHz. Voodoo3 would do 89 but not 100. Voodoo5 woudn't do 89. Diamond TnT2 wouldn't do 89.

That's all I can remeber.

 

[Peter007]

^^^ for more input :0

 

[oldfart]

Never tried 89, but my GF3 will run 80 just fine.

 

[vec]

My results using an Asus P3B-F mobo w/AGP@89Mhz:

Creative Labs Geforce 2 GTS 32M - works well no problems
Diamond Viper II (Savage 2000 chipset) - nogo at 89Mhz
3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 Retail - works well no problems

Haven't had the chance to try anything else.

 

[oslama]

updated

agp divder on my abit bh6 is defaulted at 2/3

 

[Peter007]

Thanks for the input

It seem that some people have a great result with Radeon LE at 100mhz,

Any other card that can run 3D Game reliably at 100mhz?

I was leaning toward Voodoo5, but I guess it just won't do 89mhz

I wish there was a way to LOCK AGP at the normal 66mhz, without regard to overclocking the fsb

 

[peroni]

My Radeon sdr has been working for months at 89Mhz, now running fine at 100Mhz (FSB 150).
I did ask the same question here and had some good answers. Check it out.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Hmm, I've known the Voodoo 5 to opperate at an 89MHz fsb... That would be a nice board for a BX chipset, especially if you have that setup for older games, most particularly Glide games. I've got a BX mobo myself (Gigabyte GA-6BXC), only I have a Voodoo 3 running my Glide games fast and stable with my system on the overclocked 133MHz fsb...thought about going all out and getting a Voodoo 5 myself, but I figured it would be a bit of an overkill. There is no Glide based game I play that my V3 cant run and no OpenGL game I play that my Radeon 8500 cant run, so I'm pretty well set for now.

 

[blackhawk]

I had success on my aopen ax6bc with a celeron 900 at 1200 with my asus 6800 and both my 3dfx V3 2000 and my V5500.

 

[AA0]

AGP 4x 266Mhz isn't it? I don't think running something at 100 will be hurting your card. Some epox boards are hitting 200fsb.

 

[merlocka]

AGP 4x 266Mhz isn't it? I don't think running something at 100 will be hurting your card.

AGP4x is 133MHz rising & falling edge, IIRC. This is based on 66Mhz (2/3 of 100MHz)

Rasing the FSB to 133 on a BX board results in a base of 89MHz (2/3 of 133). This yeilds 178MHz rising and falling edge for AGP 4x, which some cards can't do. It's not a matter of hurting the card, in most cases they don't boot.