Does video card have anything to do with overclocking?
Please forgive my stupid questions but I need help.
I am upgrading my ECS P4VMM motherboard and Intel p4 1.6 processor and going with the AMD 2500+ and the Biostar M7NCD PRO motherboard, I do not have a video card to use so I need one that is reasonable in price, I dont do games but I do a little video editing from camcorder to pc but nothing major. I dont know if the video card has anything to do with overclocking so I thought I better check before I order something I wont be able to use. One person recommended the matrox G550 but I found a couple of posts saying they had problems getting the card to work in the M7NCD PRO, plus that's more than I wanted to pay for a card. Also I have two pc2100 256 sticks I would like to use in the above configuration, will using this memory slow down the new system drastically? Will it prevent me from being able to overclock? Thanks Tim Remove SPAMPREVENTION from email address |
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:34:33 -0400, BuckeyeRed
wrote: Please forgive my stupid questions but I need help. I am upgrading my ECS P4VMM motherboard and Intel p4 1.6 processor and going with the AMD 2500+ and the Biostar M7NCD PRO motherboard, I do not have a video card to use so I need one that is reasonable in price, I dont do games but I do a little video editing from camcorder to pc but nothing major. I dont know if the video card has anything to do with overclocking so I thought I better check before I order something I wont be able to use. One person recommended the matrox G550 but I found a couple of posts saying they had problems getting the card to work in the M7NCD PRO, plus that's more than I wanted to pay for a card. Also I have two pc2100 256 sticks I would like to use in the above configuration, will using this memory slow down the new system drastically? Will it prevent me from being able to overclock? Thanks Tim Remove SPAMPREVENTION from email address On many (most? all?) motherboards, overclocking the front side bus (FSB) will also overclock the video card, which has a possibility of causing the video card to not work properly. I think some NForce2 boards may not have this problem because they can lock the PCI and AGP frequency independently of the FSB. Usually other components like RAM will show problems before the video card. The CPU you have selected, a Barton 2500, is a good CPU but is configured to run with at least PC2700 (333) ram. The RAM you have now is 266, and probably won't be able to work properly with the 2500 even at "standard" non overclocked settings. (Basically running your ram at 333 would be overclocking it just to get it up to the speed of the CPU. It might work but don't count on it.) |
"BuckeyeRed" wrote in message ... Please forgive my stupid questions but I need help. I am upgrading my ECS P4VMM motherboard and Intel p4 1.6 processor and going with the AMD 2500+ and the Biostar M7NCD PRO motherboard, I do not have a video card to use so I need one that is reasonable in price, I dont do games but I do a little video editing from camcorder to pc but nothing major. I dont know if the video card has anything to do with overclocking so I thought I better check before I order something I wont be able to use. One person recommended the matrox G550 but I found a couple of posts saying they had problems getting the card to work in the M7NCD PRO, plus that's more than I wanted to pay for a card. Also I have two pc2100 256 sticks I would like to use in the above configuration, will using this memory slow down the new system drastically? Will it prevent me from being able to overclock? Thanks Tim The M7NCD-Pro is a very good bargain overclocking board. I'd suggest a midrange vid card in the Ati- nVidia lineup that fits your budget. The bios allows you to lock the agp at 66MHz. The ram will definately be your bottleneck but if you have some good sticks and relax the timings you may reach 166fsb. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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