hmm ill look. i read that 9800 requires Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or higher with AGP 8X (0.8v), 4X (1.5V) or Universal AGP. Also i read that not much difference from agp 4x and 8x so im happy lol, but what does 4x with 1.5 v mean? does that mean u have to plug in 1.5 v plug from power supply into card?
yeah, the 9800 requires a separate power cable run from the PSU to the card itself. fortunately, most PSU's have an extra power line ready to go.
alright thanks . off topic in my comp specs i copy and pasted it says 2.0 ghz and maxinum 2.4 ghz??????????????????????
looking like you have a bit of a selection in how you clock your compie, i suppose. or at least what your mobo allows.
ps2mania, overclocking is basically like putting your graphics card on a compie version of nitrous oxide (NOS in cars). don't worry too much about it right now. you can do some reading and OC your card if you deem it necessary or want it.
no specs available but looking at the user manual that shows the back end of the computer appears to show that you have a videocard not a builtin 1. if can look at the motherboard to see if the videocard slot is brown & a bit setback from the back of the case as compared to the white pci slots
yes i do have a integrated video card lol it is a 32 mb sis. hmm but how do i post pictures. It is brown and set back.
is not an intergrated videocard as that means it is part of the motherboard. being a brown slot means it is an agp slot whether 2x, 4x or 8x i don't know but probably a 4 or 8x.
alright thanks both of you for all your help i appreciate it . i read that my 2.0a ghz northwood can be overclocked to 2.5 ghz!!!!!but how lol? i found this Clock Speed / vCore Max Temp 2000 MHz @ 1.5V 89.5°F 2300 MHz @ 1.55V 93°F 2400 MHz @ 1.60V 95°F 2500 MHz @ 1.70V 104°F hmm sounds interesting
hmm i go into bios and monitor temperature and it was like 140 dagrees faranhiet. WT crap? i didnt touch any settings and its that high for standard pentium 4 2.0aghz northwood?
Wow heres a story overclocking too me lol. i downloaded clockgen overclock software and i read that my cpu can go from 2.0 to 2.5 ghz safely. so i put it on 2.4 with clock gen and other cpu speed programs read it at that. the computer shut off and luckily everytime i restard my commputer it restores the cpu to normal speed? why does it restore it? am i lucky ?
i'm not sure but i found a way to unlock my bios and not use crapp software. Sony locks the bios options dealing with cpu speed so alls i did was take the ram out started it and then turned it off and took the ram out then turned back on and it worked. I dont get why it overheated at 2.4 when i read it can work for sure on 2.5 stable. I need a fan or something? Also i only can adjust fsb and i cant find vcore??
well, you definitely won't be able to OC that much on stock cooling. you need a load of more fans or water cooling to run stuff like that
