Millennium G200 on AGP x 2

[Matt Houben]

Hello,

Acc. to specs the Millennium G200 card is able to run on AGP x 2. How can I check if AGP x 2 is really used?

I use a ASUS P2B motherboard with the intel 440BX chipset. Can it cope with AGP x 2?

Does it make a lot of difference anyway having AGP or APG x 2?
Regards,

Matt

Specs--=>
Celeron 400Mhz
ASUS P2B with 440BX chipset
64 MB PC100 SDRAM (running at 66 MHz thanks to intel limiting Celerons to 66Mhz )
Matrox Millennium G200 8 MB
HDD Quantum Fireball 6.4 GB UDMA 33
FDD 3.5", 5.25"
Soundblaster Live! + digital I/O
HP 8100i 24x/4x/2x ATAPI CD-RW
15" ADI
HP 4100C scanner
Star SG-10 (Yes, robust 9 pin matrix stone-age printer technology )

[Kruzin]

1. Go to the MURC (link at bottom of this page), and d/l PCIlist from the utils page. This util will tell you what SGP mode you are in.

2. Yes. I never had any trouble getting 2x on my G200/P2B combo.

3. No. Realistically, it makes almost no difference at all. 2x only reffers to AGP texture swapping, not overall card speed. Since almost nothing uses AGP textures, the difference between 1x and 2x will only be seen in static benchmarks with large AGP texture tests.

[Matt Houben]

Thanks for your info!

Regards,

Matt

[Matt Houben]

Ok, I checked my system with PCI list.
It reports that both the Millennium G200 and the ASUS P2B is AGP x 2 capable. It also indicates that AGP x 1 is active. How do I put the system on AGP x 2? (I tried clicking the ckeckbox, no result).

Regards,

Matt

[Opus]

Depending which driver you're using you can either edit your registy settings to force AGP X2 or apply the PD5.xx hacks that are availible for download from this site.

Haven't had to force X2 with by G200/P2B/PII combo though.

Cheers

[Maggi]

Hi Matt,

you will see a difference in artificial benchmarks like 3DMark when you use those big texture rendering tests ...

I guess some of the newer games (UT, Q3) would also benefit as soon as the texture consumption exceeds the local onboard gfx-memory.


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Cheers,
Maggi
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