Super bypass ? ?

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 2:59 am

What is "super bypass" ? Is it something that a Gigabyte GA-7IX motherboard has ? If so, what are the advantages of it ?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Sun Mar 11, 2001 11:18 pm

Makes your memory run faster. Enable it.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 9:04 am

Is it available on this board ? If so, how ?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 11:34 pm

Super Bypass allows memory transfers to "bypass" several of the queueing stages in the 751 northbridge. Generally you'll see a 10-15% gain in memory performance with it enabled. You will need a stepping 5 or 6 northbridge to enable super bypass. The 7IX is an old board so it probably has a stepping 3 northbridge (no super bypass). The later versions of WCPUID will tell you the stepping of the chipset.

edit: If there's no option to enable it in the BIOS then it's not available on your board.