Is it possible to increase PCI bus speed?

Mloot

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I've read that there are 33mhz and 66mhz PCI buses. Mine is the 33mhz variety, in which I have my video card plugged into. Is there any way to change my PCI bus to 66mhz speed through a BIOS flash? And if it is possible, would this increase the performance of my PCI card?
 

numark

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PCI-66 extends the connector, so it's basically impossible to ever support 66Mhz with a standard 33Mhz board. And in my opinion, the performance for a video card would not justify a 66Mhz bus, especially when AGP can run at up to 8 times that speed on a dedicated bus.