"A Quick 'n Dirty Guide to Tweaking PCI Register Settings From BIOS"

This thread is in response to article:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips905/

I am not sure what the process described in the article is meant to acomplish. If someone knows please state what is meant to be acomplished.

it's not really relevent with modern chipsets

Would the Intel 440BX chipset be considered modern?

I have an Intel 440BX, C1 revision chipset.

There's no such thing as an Intel 440.

There are things like the 440FX, 440BX, 440LX, 440GX, 440ZX, etc.

Which one do you have?

I have the 440BX.

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nicspits said:

it's not really relevent with modern chipsets

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yeah they really gotta start marking those old azz articles saying that its way outdated

440bx chipset, I haven't even heard of that one, though i'm not much of an intel guy. But yeah, most of that stuff was because win95,98(and variants) couldn't even manage different components correctly and conflicts were common. Win2k and on have that pretty much beaten out.

Ascii2 said:

This thread is in response to article:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips905/

I am not sure what the process described in the article is meant to acomplish. If someone knows please state what is meant to be acomplished.

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The point (in this specific case) was to enable some chipset settings that the that the bios did not provide access to (in this case, that included bank interleveing). To do this, he wrote some assembly language code to modify the right chipset registers to enable his settings, assembled it and used a program to convert it into an option rom that could be included in his bios. Then, he used another piece of software to put it into a bios for his board and flashed it. Voils, he changed some register settings and got a performance improvement from his ram.

edit: remember, this code is chipset specific, and most overclocking boards today allow you to modify these settings yourself.