vanilla g400 question

[Fro]

what is the max agp bus speed this thing can handle? 66mhz? 75? 80?

[Alec]

I know for a fact that it´s probably the card that handles better higher bus speeds, but I can´t give you numbers...

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[gbm]

66 is guaranteed. 75 is OK. 83 should be OK. Don't go any further since you may encounter very strange problems, like disappearing BIOS.

[Fro]

what do you mean by disappearing bios? as in the eeprom erases itself? does that include using better cooling than with what the g400 came with?

[Admiral]

Put it to 1x AGP using the Tech Support Utility and you won't have any problems.
I'm runing my vanilla at 89 right now (133 fsb). Also didn't have any problems at 92 (138 fsb).

[Jon P. Inghram]

My G400MAX couldn't quite handle it when the program I used to bump the FSB up to 100 left the AGP multiplier at 1/1. And that was also at AGPx2.

It also corrupted the BIOS a little when it happened, full screen DOS windows wouldn't work with Win98 running until I reflashed it.

[DuRaNgO]

I have had my vanilla forced to 2x for a couple months now
jim


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[Admiral]

There you go Fro, Jim's doing 100 and if that wasn't enough he's doing 2x AGP. Though I wonder how much time it would take to fry it. From what I can remember there have been a few cases when people killed their cards at 100 after 8 months or more (do a search on this forum ).

Just read Anand's review of the G450, they claim that it won't work on a BX mobo at 133 fsb. Was it Anand or someone else that claimed the same thing about the G400 some months ago ?

[dZeus]

that would be Dr. Tom

[Rags]

My G450 runs fine on 83 agp bus (133 FSB).

Rags

[MorF]

my G450??..where'd you buy it??...I didnt think they were out yet....and I thought at
133FSB AGP speed was 89...not 83...different
AGP divider??

BTW my G400 is at 89MHZ (133FSB)AGP2X as well
o/c to 195/146 via Powerstrip.

[Rags]

That was a typo, should have read 89. My bad.

I have a G450 because I got one internally.

Rags