AGP voltage?

[emericanchaos]

i tried a search but it won't let AGP go through and voltage is to broad a term.

what does increasing the AGP voltage in the BIOS do? my GPU is a little unstable and cooling is good. i wanted to increase stability. will upping the voltage there help this?

 

[q149]

Ussually it's only good to use for stability if you are running agp out of spec(above 66mhz). You can try experimenting with it.. i think it can help some people sometimes but hardly.

 

[emericanchaos]

weill if fry the card if i push it to high?

 

[Mustanley]

BF1942 kept crashing on me when I was overclocked until I upped the AGP voltage by .1V. This was on the A7N8X-Deluxe Rev. 2 board.

 

[SickBoy]

Increasing AGP voltage basically increases the signal strength over the AGP bus. Increasing it will help if you're experiencing video instability on an overclocked AGP bus (raised FSB = overclocked AGP). Won't help with an overclocked GPU/memory on a stock AGP bus.

 

[Cúchulainn]

Even though there's an (unjustified?) taboo against raising the vagp by any amount here, I've found that a .1v increase on both of the 9700s I've owned helped stability and reduced/eliminated artifacts when approaching it's overclocked limit. I've never really gone beyond .1v higher than stock though. Give it try.

 

[Mustanley]

Won't help with an overclocked GPU/memory on a stock AGP bus.

My AGP/PCI bus is locked but it did stop the crashes I was experiencing with my Radeon 9000 Pro AIW.