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Will there be an AGP version of this board??
"Wes Newell" <w.newell@TAKEOUTverizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:13:01 +0800, df wrote:
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http://www.ocworkbench.com/gigabyte
>> GA-K8nxp-9
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> Quote from article;
>
> Overclocking wise, this board doesn't seem to provide enough as the FSB is
> limited to 250MHz. Although it provides voltage controls for Vcore, Vdimm,
> VAGP and Vhtt, it lacks one of the most important feature, multiplier
> control. We tried to use software to lower down the multiplier, it works
> but after reboot, the system won't POST if we increase the FSB above
> 220MHz despite running the memory in async mode e.g cpu/mem = 200/166. We
> hope the production unit would improve in this aspect. *latest : according
> to Gigabyte, a new bios update will include new multiplier option and
> improve overclocking.
>
> It's not the memory thats stopping the overclock, it's the HT. The Ht
> clock is derived from the system bus setting. For all practical purposes,
> this is the FSB, just with another name (HT). So with a 5x (1000) HT at
> 220MHz system bus, it's running the HT at 1100. If they would have
> lowered the Ht multiplier to 4x (800), then they should have been able to
> raise the system bus (FSB) all the way to 250MHz (assuming the cpu would
> run at that speed) and that would run HT at the rated 1000.
>
> This applies to all K8 boards. One reason i didn't have a problem clocking
> my old board without a PCI lock to 233MHz system bus was because I lowered
> HT before raising the bus to 233.
>
> Another thing. Don't confuse the 1000MHz you see for Ht as the clock
> speed. It isn't.
>
>
http://www.hypertransport.org/consortium/cons_faqs.cfm
>
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> Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
>
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