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Old July 20th 03, 03:19 PM
S.Heenan
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Guido wrote:
I am a work in proccess, so excuse me if I ask a stupid question.
After reading the site that Mike suggested, http://www.rojakpot.com/ ,
I have the following questions, is the "AGP Clock / CPU FSB Clock"
that they talk about on the site the same as the AGP Frequency in the
bios? Does this have anything to do with the 128MB of double data
rate sdram that the ATI aiw 9800 pro has? Do all the newer cards
still have to be between 66MHz and 75MHZ.

Thanks again for any help!!!!!


The ratios the article refer to do not apply to the Nforce2 chipset. That is
the beauty of the Nforce2 chipset.

For example: Let's say you have an unlocked XP2100+, 13x 133MHz stock speed
in a motherboard using the KT333 chipset. At stock speed the PCI divider of
1/4 will keep the PCI bus at 133.33 divided by 4 or 33.33MHz and the AGP bus
at double that or 66.66MHz. Let's now raise the front side bus to 154MHz
while leaving the multiplier at 13x. Now, the PCI bus is at 154 divided by 4
or 38.5MHz and the AGP bus at double that or 77MHz. Since the PCI bus has a
standard speed of 33MHz and the AGP bus 66MHz, the PC may or may not boot
since both are out of spec due to our overclocking. If the chipset has a 1/5
PCI divider, we'll be fine. If not, we'd have to resort to using a higher
multiplier and a slightly lower FSB to keep the PCI and AGP buses in check.
Perhaps 14x 150MHz=2100MHZz, which isn't a bad overclock from the stock
speed of 1733MHz. Here is where the Nforce2 chipset shines; no PCI divider
to hold us back.

The standard AGP bus speed is 66MHz. The speed of the GPU and RAM on the
video card are independent of this. Several utilities exist to overclock
video cards.

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