voodoolove (Apr 25, 2001 02:17 p.m.):
im lookin at buyin a new graphics card. im also thinkin of overclockin me P3, ive heard bout the ratio settins, (when u overclock ure cpu, it overclocks the pci slots etc...) and im confused on what card to get!!! should i get an agp card or a pci card????? p.s. 3dfx were feckin ace!!!!!lol
It depends upon the motherboard. Some let you keep the pci bus very close to 33mhz at every speed some do not. All bx boards suffer from the agp bus divider of 2/3.
That means if you want to try to run your cpu at 150fsb
the agp bus will be running at 100mhz vs the 66 spec.
Some agp cards are ok with this some wont even go to 90mhz.
My agp card and bx board combo will not go to over 92mhz agp speed with agp 2x. It will go higher but I have to use a reg. hack to set it to 1x.
So in general if you plan to overclock at 135fsb or lower a agp card is best.
If you want to go higher a pci card is best.