Overclocked system... what about AGP?

[Alec]

I overclocked the FSB of my motherboard using SoftFSB. The settings are 69.3Mhz. This also means that the AGP bus and my Matrox card are working at 69.3Mhz, right? Can I push it more (the AGP bus, I mean) without severe problems? No problem until now, and I´ve been playing for hours... my G200 is overclocked too (I attached a fan to the heatsink. The rest of the system has no additional cooling.)


SPECS:
Celeron 433@450Mhz
Intel Atlanta 440LX motherboard @69.3 FSB (Bios 14)
Soundblaster PCI 128
128 Mb SDRAM 100 Mhz
Matrox G200 8Mb SDRAM AGP @105Mhz/140Mhz (Bios 2.6.20)
4.3 Gb Western Digital Caviar EIDE

[Nuno]

Alec, don´t worry, that overclock is minimal, and surely within the card tolerance limits... Matrox cards usually work at AGP2x even at 89 Mhz bus speeds.

[Alec]

Então, Nuno?

Sempre consegui pôr uma ventoinha de 600 paus(colei-a mesmo) e estou a subir de velocidade aos poucos...

Obrigado pela dica outra vez!


I wonder if can increase the FSB a little more without extra case cooling...

[Guyver]

I ran an old ABIT-BX6R2 at 129FSB without problems using stock cooling.

I ran an ABIT BE6 at 133FSB with stock cooling as well.

I added extra cooling when I switched to the 10,000RPM hard drives as the first gens created significant heat...


Guyv

[Nuno]

Força aí, toca a por essa G200 a jipar!



Quanto a poderes overclockar mais o fsb, que opções tens disponíveis? É que sendo uma mb da Intel, até me admira que tenha 69 mhz de fsb, pensava que era 66 e pronto.

Se tiveres a opção de 75, de certeza que o cpu faz 488, e a G200 deve aguentar sem problemas.

[This message has been edited by Nuno (edited 21 March 2000).]

[Alec]

Nuno, vou falar inglês ou eles zangam-se...

This is overclocking through software. I can take the AL440LX up to 80Mhz FSB...but 72 is normally the threshold past which disk and registry errors start to occur - i read this in a personal page dedicated to this motherboard and the way to overclock it. I took it to 70.something without problems, though.

Cheers

[This message has been edited by Alec (edited 22 March 2000).]

[Nuno]

That´s probably your hdd. Some simply can´t take bus speeds out of specs. Try to disable udma in the bios and see if it works. It should do the trick.