Setting AGP clock to 100mhz

[Wurrmm]

I hear alot about locking the AGP clock to 66mhz. Why do this when it can be set to 100mhz???

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Wurrmm
I hear alot about locking the AGP clock to 66mhz. Why do this when it can be set to 100mhz???

Cause it's speced to run at 66 MHz, not 100.
Why not set your 1.5 GHz CPU to 2.5 GHz?

It may work and all will be good, or it may burn, kill your dog, eat your food, and send nasty letters to your girlfriend.

 

[Wurrmm]

Is that it?? Is there a significant increase in performance when switching to 100 from 66?? Why is the 100mhz setting even available if it is 'bad' and stuff.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Wurrmm
Is that it?? Is there a significant increase in performance when switching to 100 from 66?? Why is the 100mhz setting even available if it is 'bad' and stuff.

Many motherboards allow you to overclock and overvolt all sorta of things, CPU's most notably, but in many cases increased PCI/AGP/RAM speeds come along with it.
They provide those options because...well people like to overclock.

And no you will notice little to no benefit from the AGP speed increase in itself.

 

[sandorski]

I don't know of any vidcards that can handle a 100mhz AGP bus.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

It won't make a difference either way. In most of today's games, there isn't a real big difference between 4x and 8x. Most games don't even use all the memory bandwidth so absically you'd be overclocking for no reason...

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
It won't make a difference either way. In most of today's games, there isn't a real big difference between 4x and 8x. Most games don't even use all the memory bandwidth so absically you'd be overclocking for no reason...

Using AGP 8x instead of 4x is not overclocking, 8x is still 66mhz.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I know that, but I 'm just trying to say that the extra mhz probably won't help. Like I said, most games don't even use all the bandwidth.

 

[ElFenix]

the 89MHz that a BX runs at when set to 133 FSB sure did help the scores

not all vid cards could run at that speed though

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
the 89MHz that a BX runs at when set to 133 FSB sure did help the scores

not all vid cards could run at that speed though

Rather, the 133 MHz FSB helped me thinks.