Hey fellas and girl techs. Been away for a while but glad to be back.![]()
I doing research for two of my friends regarding upgrades on their existing systems.
One guy owns a classic athlon 750mhz system with an fic sd11 mb, 256 mb sdram, v3 3000 16 mb agp v.c., etc. He wishes to upgrade to a better 3d video card. I suggested an ati radeon 64 mb ddr v.c. for his computer. Reason being I suggested that to him was because the existing mb has the amd 751 northbridge chipset on it that controls the agp bus. I know for a fact that there are some lockup issues when using a nvidia based videocard on that type of chipset. I know there some ways of bypassing that issue by slowing the agp slot down to 1x. But I don't want to get into all that hassle. I'm just wondering if anyone who owns a classic athlon with a fic sd11 mb is currently using an ati radeon 64mb ddr v.c. and whether they are having lockup issues or not.
2nd question. Another friend owns a PIII 450mhz (not o/c) system with 128mb pc133 ram, geforce2mx v.c., asus p3b-f mb etc. He is asking me whether he can run a PIII-1 ghz processor on that board. I presume it can because it does have a setting for 133mhz bus speed even though it will o/c the agp slot, but his geforce card should handle that setting fine. I know the bx chipset doesn't officially support the 133mhz bus speed, but who cares nowadays???? Does anyone here run a PIII 1ghz on an asus p3bf and have any problems???? Thanks all in advance. G'night!!!!![]()




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