Spread Spectrum?

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

There is a setting called 'Spread Spectrum' in the BIOS; does anyone know what it means and would I benefit from enabling it?

Also, does anyone know where to find a BIOS update for the S3 Savage 4 AGP card?

[NickS]

Great wrote:

There is a setting called 'Spread Spectrum' in the BIOS; does anyone know what it means and would I benefit from enabling it?

As I understand it, it introduces some timing variability to help in meeting FCC emission standards (everything isn't running at the same frequency). It won't do your PC's performance any good.

[Denniss]

This setting to enabled and FSB is not fixed to 133MHz (as example) - it moves a little up and down to reduce electromagnetical interferences .
Slows down performance a little and may cause some instabilities .

I would add, in some circumstances this will improve stability. I've seen BP6 users, who have instability problems when using a big GeForce. Their problems were solved when the spread spectrum was set a notch higher.