I know this is a hot topic but i thought i'd ask anyway. i've just upgraded my MB & CPU from an AbitBH6 to an Asus p3v4x & Celery 300a@450 to a P!!! 550e@733(need more cooling to get more speed...). anyway one of my main reasons for buying this board other than intel hasn't got their act together with those stupid 810(decelerator) & 820 MB(castrated sdram solution), is the bonus of the asus via apollo 133a MBs come with APGx4 + all the other goodies. the only other way to get AGPx4 is thru that evil chipset maker with that non existant rdram rubbish (in this country anyway, australia if you want to know). i plugged all the stuff in and fiddled with the bios and found the magical AGP setting (x1, x2, x4)+ a side banding option. i set both x4 and sidebanding on. at 550 its ok for a while utill you start to tax it where it crashs or the screen corrupts on the win desktop. at 733 it doesn't take long for it burn. i guessed its either ram (pc100 however on this board you can set the system freq to +/- 33 on my system its 133FSB to reach 733 -33 so the ram runs at 100FSB), the board has issues suporting AGPx4 or the G400max cant handle x4 or the higher system freq.
if any one is running a similar system, have you got it to work, if so how or can anyone give me some tips in tne right direction concerning either my graphics card, MB etc.
overall i'm a bit worried because i bought this cpu & BM compo partly so i could run my G400max and x4.
system:
-p!!! 550e fc pga cpu with asus slot adapter
-asus p3v4x MB
-matrox g400max
-seagate barracuda ata66 7200rpm 28.5g hd
-pioneer 103s dvdrom 6x/32x
-castlewood orb 2.2g drv
-sb awe64 gold sound card
-smc ethernet adapter
-diamondview 1995 19" monitor
-ms keyboard
-ms intellimouse explorer
-win98se 4.10.2222 a
-pdesk 5.52.015
-asus mb bios rev 1.03, asus driver 4.17
any help would be much appreciated, cheers.
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if any one is running a similar system, have you got it to work, if so how or can anyone give me some tips in tne right direction concerning either my graphics card, MB etc.
overall i'm a bit worried because i bought this cpu & BM compo partly so i could run my G400max and x4.
system:
-p!!! 550e fc pga cpu with asus slot adapter
-asus p3v4x MB
-matrox g400max
-seagate barracuda ata66 7200rpm 28.5g hd
-pioneer 103s dvdrom 6x/32x
-castlewood orb 2.2g drv
-sb awe64 gold sound card
-smc ethernet adapter
-diamondview 1995 19" monitor
-ms keyboard
-ms intellimouse explorer
-win98se 4.10.2222 a
-pdesk 5.52.015
-asus mb bios rev 1.03, asus driver 4.17
any help would be much appreciated, cheers.
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