So, anyway: I've downloaded Everest Home Edition a while ago. It's pretty awesome, and very neat to use. Extensive and everything. I recommend trying it.

http://www.lavalys.com/products/overvie ... =1&lang=en


So, i'm browsing my pc info, and when I look into my chipset info and settings, the program notifies me of two things:

->AGP has been deactivated. This might cause performance problems.
->the current AGP speed (x4) is lower than the max supported speed (x8)
this migth cause performance problems.

Questions:

1) What is AGP?
2) What's with the deactivated/running at lower speed than possible thing?
3) In case the answer to 2) doesn't exclude this already: could I gain in performance by tweaking this shit?


I know, I can find this on the net. But I'm just looking for the info I need, ie performance gain without blowing up my rig. All I know is that AGP is something to do with my mobo. And chipset, apparently.

Thanks for any input...i'm going to resume getting giddy over my pc specs in everest

Dunno if this helps, i'm browsing the FAQ of that thing and my eye sees this:

17. On the Motherboard / Chipset page, the AGP rate is lower than the maximum supported, or even the AGP seems to be completely disabled. How to fix this?

It can be because motherboard chipset drivers have not yet been installed, or you the AGP video card in the system is incapable of AGP texturing (e.g. 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo3). Or it's simply a PCI video card. To solve the driver problem, it is recommended to first install the motherboard chipset driver, and after that to install the driver for the video card.

(list of drivers)

blah

mmm, thanks for that J. It's probably the chipset drivers then, because my 9600pro isn't a PCI card and does support AGP. I'm still gonna wait for Satis or such to come along and spill his guts about this, no offense.

In the meanwhile I'll locate those chipset drivers

To me it looks like it means your motherboard supports AGP 8x but your video card is running only at 4x. Probably a setting in your bios doesnt have it set to 8 or drivers like J said. Im leaning more toward bios.

how can someone not know what AGP means?!

What kinda video card you got again?

Anyway, yea, I'm with 11b, probably just running in 4x mode. Maybe that's all the video card (or mobo) supports, for all I know. Something I do know is that the real-world performance differences between 4x and 8x are minimal. Most of the work is done on board the video card (transferring between graphics ram and GPU) so it doesn't cross the AGP bus. Which is another reason PCIE doesn't really do much for performance yet...the extra bandwidth isn't being utilized.

Someone who never indulged in computer science whatsoever?


Anyway, I've got a radeon 9600pro gfx card, and an A7N8X-X asus mobo. If that helps.

Sucks to hear that the gain would be minimal, but i'll give it a try anyway if i can win some speed.

Heres what you do rinox you lazy bastard.

You go to www.ati.com
click on products
click on gamer
scroll down
Radeon® 9600 PRO
The page it takes you too will tell you what AGP speed you video card is.

Now for the motherboard.

www.asus.com
click on your region
click on products
click on motherboards
click on A7N8X-X
And somewhere on that page it tell you what speed AGP your motherboard is.

Now once you find out what speeds your motherboard and video card AGP are come back and tell us what you found out.

lol, yay 11b. I was too lazy to do it.

Thanks for the walkthrough


Anyway, turns out both my mobo and gfx card support X8 AGP. So what's next, I go in my BIOS during startup and change the setting?

OMG IT CAN THINK FOR ITSELF! Now, does it have a soul????????......
























to answer your question, yes. BIOS is next step. Ill even give you a hint, the setting is under the advanced tab "Chip Configuration"

got it, tried it, found i have a very average computer

Same here...i desperately need a new processor.

@ 11B...allright, I'll go and check that shit then, thnx. As for the thinking for myself part; I only do that when I have to. Genius shouldn't be wasted. Be small. . . and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

I try not to think. It wears out the brain cells.

I only try to think with my penis, it saves time and I usally end up with a smile on my face.

Dang, good theory. I do hope that your penis is a blank when hitting the showers after football practice, though.