Hi! I know what an IGP is but I don't know where it is situated. It's another function of the northbridge isn't it? Or is it a separate thing situated away from the chipset? I have one more doubt. If I choose a motherboard with a higher FSB than my cpu, will it affect the overall performance of the system? Thanks
Welcome to HWF I think you mean AGP, which is a slot to install a graphics card (predecessor of PCI Express). IGP is a network routing protocol. If your FSB frequency has been configured to a higher rate than the CPU, it gets overclocked to a higher clock speed. This could damage the CPU or cause overheating. You should look into your BIOS settings if you can manually lower your FSB frequency. Some motherboards can lower it automatically, but that depends on the motherboard. It won't cause your CPU to run slower than initially intended, but you should make sure that the specific CPU model is supported by the motherboard.
Nay you got it completely wrong. I'm not new to this field. I was talking about Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP). I'm not talking about OC here. I'm talking about the maximum FSB of my mobo Thanks
Pardon me, my bad. The Integrated GPU is located near the VGA connector of the mobo. You can use a CPU with a lower FSB frequency on a mobo with a higher FSB. This works, but the CPU will run at a higher clock rate. This makes it run faster, but could cause overheating. Lowering the FSB frequency in the BIOS to be equal the the one specified for your CPU should correct this problem.
