[AK]Abaddon
07-26-2004, 06:13 PM
Hi folks,
I just purchased an MSI PT880 board, and installed a 3.2 gHz P4C, with 800 mHz FSB.
My system specs are as follows:
MSI NEO-LSR PT880 motherboard
Intel 3.2C P4 800MB FSB
AeroCool 2 heatsink
(2) 512mb Kingston DDR466 HyperX RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card
WD1200JD Western Digital SATA 120mb drive (7200 RPM)
Creative Audigy 2
I have the memory running at 1:1 (400 mhz) in dual channel mode, and have overclocked the FSB to 216, yielding a clock speed of 3.47 ghz/bus 860+ mhz. I realize that I will not be able to overclock a 200 mhz bus speed too much on this board. I have a vcore of 1.585 V on the CPU.
However, I am concerned that the AGP/PCI lock in my BIOS is not working. I have the AGP frequency set to 66.6 in BIOS ... but Sisoft Sandra's mainboard information is reporting my AGP speed as 72.7. Should I trust my BIOS or Sandra on this one?
I have been having a few hard lockups in games, so I suspect the Sandra report is accurate.
Does anyone know whether Sandra reads that AGP bus information from the computer, or simply calculates it based on the FSB? I hate to think that my AGP/PCI lock is not working ... but it was a $65 board.
I just purchased an MSI PT880 board, and installed a 3.2 gHz P4C, with 800 mHz FSB.
My system specs are as follows:
MSI NEO-LSR PT880 motherboard
Intel 3.2C P4 800MB FSB
AeroCool 2 heatsink
(2) 512mb Kingston DDR466 HyperX RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card
WD1200JD Western Digital SATA 120mb drive (7200 RPM)
Creative Audigy 2
I have the memory running at 1:1 (400 mhz) in dual channel mode, and have overclocked the FSB to 216, yielding a clock speed of 3.47 ghz/bus 860+ mhz. I realize that I will not be able to overclock a 200 mhz bus speed too much on this board. I have a vcore of 1.585 V on the CPU.
However, I am concerned that the AGP/PCI lock in my BIOS is not working. I have the AGP frequency set to 66.6 in BIOS ... but Sisoft Sandra's mainboard information is reporting my AGP speed as 72.7. Should I trust my BIOS or Sandra on this one?
I have been having a few hard lockups in games, so I suspect the Sandra report is accurate.
Does anyone know whether Sandra reads that AGP bus information from the computer, or simply calculates it based on the FSB? I hate to think that my AGP/PCI lock is not working ... but it was a $65 board.