I have a question

I was haveing a gander through my BIOS and I found something that said SB to K8 speed and under the options it has a 1 with a up arrow and a 1 with a down arrow, 8 up/8down, and lastly 16 up/16down. It was set at 8up/8down, I went ahead at set it to 16up/16down. My question, would this happen to be a control for my pci slots?

bigbird8960 said:

I was haveing a gander through my BIOS and I found something that said SB to K8 speed and under the options it has a 1 with a up arrow and a 1 with a down arrow, 8 up/8down, and lastly 16 up/16down. It was set at 8up/8down, I went ahead at set it to 16up/16down. My question, would this happen to be a control for my pci slots?

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I believe that is just an odd way of showing the HT Link Width. 8 or 16 bit.

ok, so which is better, or atleast which should I run?

I am not sure of the total picture where this exact setup is concerned but in essence you can have a short wide fast bus or a long narrow fast bus.

I use 16 but have never tested it. I say set it both ways and run PCMark and see if there is a diffrence.

http://www.hypertransport.org/default.cfm?page=HyperTransportSpecifications I did a write up on HT and QPI but it does not answer your question but I know the HTC website pretty well.

bigbird8960 said:

ok, so which is better, or atleast which should I run?

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Since you've got a single 16-bit card that's what I'd be running, 16 wide. But I doubt you'll notice much, if any, difference ...