Just tweaking my BIOS Vidio settings and notice something called AGP Fastwrite. What does this do and should I have it enabled for better frame rate? I am replacing my Graphics card sometimes next week with a Radeon 9800 Pro so I am looking for a higher frame rate more then graphical quality.

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Originally posted by MasterMind
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I remember.... two years back.... one person used to answer every question asked as "do a search on google". LOL Sig line funda was not there at that time.

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AGP Fast Write

Common Options : Enabled, Disabled

Details

This BIOS feature controls the chipset's AGP Fast Write capability. Fast Write is a feature which accelerates memory write transactions from the chipset to the AGP device.

Normally, any data meant for the AGP device must be written to the main memory for the AGP device to read. Fast Write allows the AGP device to bypass the main memory and directly access the data. To do so, the AGP device will act as a PCI device whenever the chipset attempts to write to it. This allows the data to be directly written to the AGP device (like other PCI devices), instead of being written to the main memory first.

As you can see, bypassing the main memory saves time and improves the AGP read performance. However, AGP writes (to the chipset) will not benefit from Fast Writes as it will follow normal AGP protocol and write to main memory.

In addition, while PCI signals are used for Fast Write transactions, the behaviour of those PCI signals has been modified and do not follow PCI specifications. Therefore, this feature may cause problems with some PCI cards.

Therefore, it is recommended that you enable AGP Fast Write for better AGP read performance but disable it if any of your PCI cards start acting funny.

Please note that for AGP Fast Write to work, both motherboard chipset and graphics card must support the Fast Write protocol and the data transfer rate must be at AGP2X or faster.