how do i check AGP speed on my K7S5A?

[LongCoolMother]

i was running sisoft sandra and i saw a tip that said something about not using my AGP speed to the full potential. i looked and the motherboard and VGA both said 4x capable. I cant find a way to check for sure if its actually running that fast, i have a Radeon 8500 retail. it also says something like sideband disabled. whats that? need some help here...thanks

 

[LongCoolMother]

i take it nobody knows?

 

[Buz2b]

Here's some info:


<< Side band address is a sneaky 8 bit pathway left over from the old days that can be used to also help graphics data flow but its very slow and doesnt really help much. Fastwrites is a left over from the old pci days when videocards didnt have alot of ram and can be used to speed up graphics data flow but is unnecessary and in geforce 3s cant be used at all. >>



<< You'll also notice sidebanding was disabled. Don't ask me how, I didn't mean it and I'd prefer to have it enabled but have been up able to with my computer If you know how to enable it with the GeForce, please let me know! UPDATE: A new bios has been released for the Asus GeForces to enable side banding. It really only made a bee's dick of improvement, oh well. >>



<< support for AGP side-banding (the transfer of data on both the rising and falling edges of the AGP bus, i.e. making use of the entire width of a road rather than the central portion exclusively). >>

I'm not sure what you need but if you have the latest drivers then check in your video card setup. Otherwise you might just make sure that things are set in the BIOS correctly.

 

[bowie71]

I never heard there's a single software or tool to test whether the board run AGP 4x or 2x. I just know that using Sisoft Sandra you can check your AGP is 4x or 2x in the mainboard information, same as you did.

 

[PullMyFinger]

You can usually just check in your bios to see what your AGP is set at the next time you reboot. Also sidebanding and fast writes are usually disabled or not supported by default because of the instability/conflicts that they can cause. Generally, enabling them gains you no noticeable improvement in performance.