On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:40:52 GMT, "KMS" wrote:

Well... got some more information. I just flashed to a 1005.020 beta bios
that have the AGP/PCI lock. At the moment I'm running at 220 FSB with stock
voltage and multiplier. Prime95 seem to run stable. (At 222MHz got error
after 10 minutes.) The thread I found this information explained that only
the later boards, revision 1.02 with serial numbers starting with 45MG0Jxxxx
and later do support this lock. The early boards do not. I was lucky to get
one of those newer boards... : )

Anybody know a program that measures AGP and/or PCI clock speed? I have
Sandra but it does not tell anything...


I was playing around with the K8t800 chipset that didn't have the lock
at all. I got it up to about 235mhz (set in bios and running pc4000
ram) and it actually booted into win2k, but I got some font graphics
corruption that indicated my 9800pro wasn't happy running at high AGP
speeds.

Thankfully, my western digital ide drive on the V8237 southbridge
didn't show any indication of corruption.

Some reviewer had suggested the agp and pci buses cycled around to the
correct speeds at some higher fsb settings, but I think he was way off
on that as I didn't see anything like that at the speeds he suggested.
But who knows, I don't have any way to measure the pci or agp speeds
directly.

I recall reading some reviews that the via pro chipset still doesn't
have a real solid lock. The reviews of the nforce3 250gb seem so
good, I'm surprised people like the via pro which doesn't seem to be
much different than the non-pro really.