Athlon XP 2400

[Active Techster]

Hi Guys

I have just bought an Athlon XP 2400 to go with my new ABit Nofprce2 Motherboard :)


What speed do you recomend I set the processor at in the bios? if I overclock it what do you recomend and whats the bus speeds and stuff? because at the mo I cannot chnage it right. It keeps staying at 1Ghz.

Please Help

Cheers

Pid

[Budfred]

Unless you have a lot of money to throw away, I wouldn't overclock it. The Athlon chips tend to run hot already and you would need some pretty impressive cooling to keep that chip from flaming out. It also would not provide any noticeable benefit for speed.

Budfred

[gwallen4]

The Athlon XP 2400+ operates at 2.0 GHz. You should set the CPU clock at 133 MHz, and the multiplier at 15 (15 X 133 = 2000 MHz or 2 Ghz). Most Bioses will autodetect the multiplier, so you can usually set the multiplier for default.

No need to overclock. You already have one the fastest computers on the planet.

[Active Techster]

Cheers guys.

One other question, I understand that I the NForce2 has AGP 8x capability. I have a Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card (Gainward), what does AGP 8x actually do and what is the benefit of me setting it in the bios to this? I currently have it set to 4x, if I up that to 8x what is it going to do? I have XP Pro.

Cheers

Pid

[malcore]

AGP 8x supposedly gives twice the throughput of 4x, the results are debatable however.

Your GeForce card is only capable of 4x though. To utilize the 8x you would need a card with the AGP8x spec, like a Radeon 9700.

The only GeForce cards that I am aware of that have this spec are special 8x editions of the GeForce Ti4200. ( I could be wrong though}

Edit- and I am wrong!!!:p

If you have one of the 8x mx cards, then set your bios to 8x. You may get better performance.:confused:

[Active Techster]

Yep you are right.

Just found this article after I posted above:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=feature_agp8x

Think the Radeon will have to be my next investment!

[saphalline]

if I up that to 8x what is it going to do?
Nothing. 8x isn't needed and you wouldn't notice any improvements. Theoretically it will increase AGP performance for future games (ie Doom III), but current compressed texture data doesn't come close enough to bogging down 4x.