Some AGP Questions...

[Jerrohd]

Hi,

I am a little new when it comes to managing my AGP settings on the computer and have two questions for those more knowledgable in these matters.

First: my system specs

PIII-500 (no OC) on an Asus PSB MB (Bios v1010)
256 MB of PC100 SD RAM
Matrox G400MAX with 5.30 Drivers
Windows 98 with DirectX 7

Now for my questions:

1) How can I tell if my AGP slot and Matrox card are communicating at AGP2X?

2) My AGP memory in the BIOS is set to 64. Is there any real world benefits to setting it higher and can anyone provide benchmarks to give me an example?

Thanks!

Jerrohd

[Jerrohd]

Oops!

That motherboard is an Asus P2B, not PSB.

Heh...

Jerrohd

[Smiff]

Jerrohd,

1) Grab PCIlist here:

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/cgi-bin/clickcount.pl?url=www.entechtaiwan.com/files/pcilist.exe

Select "AGP VGA adapter" and it will tell you.

2) For current apps you wont see any difference, but set it to 128MB just to be sure. I think (?). works for me anyway!

Smiff