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AGP Fast Writes?

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November 5, 2002 3:15:46 PM

Would anyone be so kind as to tell me what AGP Fast Writes are? (In the BIOS of coarse)

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November 5, 2002 3:18:32 PM

AGP fast writes stands for AGP over the speed of 2X

ERRATUM: FAST WRITES are Used by AGP 4X GForce boards.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Snotling on 11/05/02 03:26 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
a b V Motherboard
November 5, 2002 5:46:29 PM

The last guy was pulling your leg. AGP Fast Writes allow AGP to write textures directly to RAM without going through something...maybe the CPU. Anyway, as proof of the falsehood of the other guys comment, I give you the i815E chipset, an AGP4x chipset without fastwrites.

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November 5, 2002 5:57:33 PM

you mean write textures without using system ram...

your i815E is in fact a 4X AGP but it's BIOS does not have a "fast write" setting. If your "fast write" setting is Off you'll be running on AGP 2X.

on i815 you toggle manualy 2X-4x result is the same.
November 5, 2002 6:18:56 PM

Sorry, my apologies to both of you.

Crashman might be a bit closer to the truth than I was.
here is the link to the explanation:

http://www.reactorcritical.com/white-nvidia-agpfs/white...

the thing is, it did not exist back in AGP 1.0 (2x) and you must use 4X to use fastwrites.

I was confused, I admit. sorry again.
a b V Motherboard
November 5, 2002 8:59:20 PM

Yeh, directly from the CPU without going to RAM, I knew something was skipped. Anyway, the i815 can't do it. I know because I tested a couple boards.

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