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Reclocking The GeForce FX Go5200
To reclock the GeForce FX Go5200 and re-enable its AGP sideband support, I relied on the excellent RivaTuner. After numerous tries, I managed to reclock the Go5200 to stable clock speeds of 243MHz core and 513MHz memory.
That was, of course, still lower than NVIDIA's rated clock speeds of 300MHz core and 600MHz. But I did manage to re-enable the Go5200's AGP sideband support using RivaTuner's NVStrap driver.
The AGP fast write support was already enabled so there was no need for NVStrap to force it on.
So, here is the final tally :-
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Maximum Rating
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Actual Specs
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Improved Specs
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% Improved
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Core Clock
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Up to 300MHz
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199MHz
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243MHz
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22.11%
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Memory Clock
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Up to 300MHz
(600MHz DDR) |
202.5MHz
(405MHz DDR) |
256.5MHz
(513MHz DDR) |
26.67%
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Memory Bandwidth
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Up to 9.6GB/s
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6.48GB/s
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8.21GB/s
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26.67%
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AGP Support
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8X
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4X (Motherboard limitation)
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4X (Motherboard limitation)
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-
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AGP Sidebanding
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Supported
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Disabled
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Enabled
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-
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AGP FastWrites
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Supported
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Enabled
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Enabled
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-
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I will now test each change I made as well as the completely "upgraded" Go5200. Let's see how well the Go5200 does with improved clock speeds and AGP sidebanding enabled.
