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Toaster · 10-30-2000, 10:04 AM

VIA system boards have only fair memory speeds. Couple this with latency on the AGP bus. Usually, if the PCI bus speed it too high (above 33mhz) the system board adds "wait states" which are designed to give peripherals more time to complete a given task. Then, your bus rate may be too low.
PCI bus rates below 30mhz will impact upon performance.
Also, if your system memory can stand being set at CAS2 instead of CAS3, system performance will increase.
Some vid-card overclocking utilities allow vid-card memory to be optimised.

10-30-2000, 10:04 AM	#4
Toaster Member (13 bit) Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Now in Phoenix, AZ. Where next? Only 8 states left to see. Posts: 4,661	VIA system boards have only fair memory speeds. Couple this with latency on the AGP bus. Usually, if the PCI bus speed it too high (above 33mhz) the system board adds "wait states" which are designed to give peripherals more time to complete a given task. Then, your bus rate may be too low. PCI bus rates below 30mhz will impact upon performance. Also, if your system memory can stand being set at CAS2 instead of CAS3, system performance will increase. Some vid-card overclocking utilities allow vid-card memory to be optimised. __________________ 2 goldfish were discussing Mythology. The discussion ended when a goldfish replied: "There MUST be a God, who changes the water?"