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Steve_123
02-22-2000, 05:37 PM
I have a Tyan S1846 MB, which is a slot 1 board with the intel BX chipset with AMI BIOS. I have a celeron 300A overclocked at 450.(100x4.5) The system is completely stable. But, I see something odd while running SiSoft Sandra. It shows my AGP bus speed is at 200 MHz. It advsises me to slow it down, change a clock divider or something like that. I don't have a setting like that in my BIOS. I don't know if it's correct or not. I have an AGP i740 8MB video board, which is 1x or 2x compatible. Everything seems to work fine and the system had been running this way for a few days with no problems.

I plan on buying a voodoo3 AGP board (possibly) at the end of the week. Will this cause any problems?

I first posted this topic on the video cards and monitors forum, but I decided to post it here too. Here's a link the the other post.
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum4/HTML/001852.html

Any other info or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Szech
02-22-2000, 06:25 PM
Wow, and it still hasn't fried... Anyway, the Intel BX chipset doesn't support AGP dividers, which is why 440BX O/Cing is better with a PCI video card. I'd suggest the PCI version of that Voodoo. Don't worry, you're not losing much because Voodoo doesn't use all the AGP features anyway.

Steve_123
02-22-2000, 06:52 PM
Would this act any different than, if I had a PII 450 cpu installed. It has the same (4.5x100) configuration.

The video board seems to be working fine, the heat sink on the video board is pretty warm to the touch, but if this is the case, do I risk damaging anything but the video board itself?