Sadly, this was found to be erroneous in some BIOS. The BIOS programmer had it reversed so the only way to sort out if it made any difference was to BENCHMARK it before and after.
With such gaffes, no one can tell you it actually does "this." One could tell you it "should do this", but not with absolute authority.
Bob
If AGP master 1 WS Read and "" write are 1 wait state when enabled, if disabled is it 0 wait states, or some value greater than one?

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