AGP Speed

[giskard]

Hi All,

I'm running a moderately overclocked system (see specs below). AGP is currently set at 96mhz x2. Everything is running well at this speed. But when i hit 150mhz fsb (100mhz AGP) the graphics card droppes it's bundle.

I'm not too worried - i realise that most cards would poo their pants at 96mhz :-), but i'd be interested to see if any of you hardcore overclockers out their are running your Matrox cards @100mhz or faster.

If so, did you have to do anything special to get there, like waving dead chickens around, that sort of thing:-)

Cheers,

Giskard.

System:

PIII 500E @ 720mhz
Soyo SY-6BA+ IV Motherboard
128mb PC133 Apacer SDRAM
16mb Matrox G400 O/C by 10%
AGP @ 96mhz set at 2x
13.5gig Westerndigital Expert hdd @ ATA66
Win 98SE

[Wombat]

Force it to 1x, and see if she fares better.

[Rick]

Hi, when I was overclocking using SoftFSB my AGP speed was at 100mhz, it ran fine at 2x so I was getting a nice performance boost. I've heard that 105 is about the limit without frying your card BIOS. I've since altered the jumpers on the board so I'm back at a realtivly pokey 66 2x bus speed.

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[giskard]

Tried switching to AGP 1x, upping the fsb to 150mhz, rebooted and got a divide overflow error when stating win98.

Does this shed any light on the situation?

Giskard.

[Plmr]

I can get very close to 150 mhz b4 my system stops running d3d and ogl apps I get to 147 X 6 = 882 Not bad ...BUT Y NOT 900 ..I wanna go 900 stable ,with games and everything ..1X doesnt seem to help me much either..Ill try the Chicken trick ..Ill try anything...

Matt

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