AGP Master 1WS Read

Common Options : Enabled, Disabled

Quick Review

This BIOS feature allows you to reduce the time the AGP bus-mastering device has to wait before it can initiate a read command, to only one wait state. This speeds up all reads that the AGP bus-master makes from the system memory.

So, for better AGP read performance, enable this feature. Disable it only if you notice visual anomalies or if your system hangs on running software that make use of AGP texturing.

Curiously, some motherboards apparently come with a default AGP master read latency of 0! Enabling the AGP Master 1WS Read in such cases will actually increase the latency by one wait state and reduce AGP read performance. Although it's quite unlikely that the default AGP master read latency would be zero, that's what their manuals say.