Motherboard conflicts

[Guest]

I have a gigabyte m/b with a Apollo Pro 693 chipset. The problem is, after noticing some irreguralities, is that the entire systems FSB is messed up. I have a Coppermine PIII Celeron 600 chip and nVidia AGP 32Mg card. After noticing stuff I decided to use the highly recommended Sisoft Sandra utility. On the chip as well as the AGP slot..the system bus speed is 120MHz, the m/b is a socket 370 and the chip is a FCPGA.. Now, a 466 Celeron also on a gigabyte m/b using a "slocket" runs better. What I need to know is how can I overcome this problem, cos the chip seems locked @ 5X as well as the bus speed @ 120MHz..doesn't matter if i fiddle with the boards dipswitches.. I know it's supposed to b @ 66MHz with 9X to give me the 600MHz, but the chip is running incorrect as well as the ENTIRE m/b system bus, cos it is to high on the AGP, PCI as well as the ISA slots. How can I overcome this please, cos here in south africa things don't come cheap and this is most depressing. Any info would br greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Raistlin]

RE sisoft sandra,
Dont believe it, It lies often and badly.
it tells me my pci is running at 48mhz *chuckle*
and it is 133/4 which is 33mhz. it also tells me my chip is running at 4 X 202mhz and it is really 8X100

They really need to update there software. there is other software that will iden the bus and speed but i cant seem to recall its name. Norton has a sysinfo util that is about equally bad to the sisoft one.

Dont get me wrong i like the sisoft benchmarks and utility
very informative but it can lie about stuff like bus speeds etc.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that...the reason i decided to check is because I noticed that files like .asf and .avi(divx) files were running worse, in that i mean framing, than a 466 Celeron "slocket" with a 4Mg AGP card.. and games such as F1 2000 and even the OLD NFS 3 weren't running properly..that is why I thought that the problem was true, I have already bought a newer board *arrgghh*... Is there ne other software that can tell me the truth..cos it is very depressing to have a 32Mg AGP card on a "supposedly" faster system being outrun by a 4Mg AGP card on a slower system ) Thanks for the reply