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**Kruzin** · 14 August 1999, 10:41

Please just make a BIOS crash disk before you start messing with it

I won't be trying it personaly. I'll let everyone else risk their cards this time, after the last PS ate my biod

There are better ways to o/c anyway...a single slider like PS has gives you very little control on your overclocking.

**Kookstick** · 14 August 1999, 11:45

I hear ya Kruzin. I already made a bios backup disk. I'm always a little worried about powerstrip but it appears to work correctly this time.

**agallag** · 14 August 1999, 16:10

What's the latest impression on their Performance Tuner? They are up to build 12 now, but i'm a little nervous about trying it.

I'm going to wait until my freezing problem is sorted out at least (see thread "G400 32MB DH, random freezing in 3D").

**Scytale** · 14 August 1999, 21:23

Someone reminded me of overclocking so I just tried both PS/GX and g200clk on my MAX.

PS/GX seems to work okay for me. However it seems to use a different scheme for programming the G400 registers than g200clk.
I got messed up when I tried PS/GX together with g200clk. My graphics clock seemed to be programmed for 270, not good.
By itself PS/GX worked okay but the slider interface is not very accurate and it lacks some settings you can achieve using g200clk. Using PS/GX it seems close to impossible to reach a graphics clock > 150, because if you try PS/GX will program the memory clock for 225+, which is > 12% out of spec.

G200clk (/1) works okay up to a PLL clock of 309. When I go for 310 or higher the display gets messed up. No corruption (I'm sure my MAX could take a lot more), but it looks like the display buffer is interpreted in a different way. Odd.
It appears that programming of the divisors (/3) is not supported for the MAX, so 154/206 was the best I got from g200clk.

So far it looks like neither of the two programs are able to offer me what I would like, let's say 166/220.

Comments appreciated.

[This message has been edited by Scytale (edited 08-15-1999).]

**Kookstick** · 15 August 1999, 00:06

Scytale-I just tested the new powerstrip and moved the memory slider to 220 and the core which moves with it went to 165. That's pretty close to what you wanted. The old powerstrip really messed with my system but they say it's been cured with this version and I can tell a huge improvement. When I overclocked before I wouldn't even get a performance increase and now I do and When I check it with G4set it's correct and when you set it back to default it goes back. I don't have a max so I wasn't about to apply that 220 setting but my vanilla is very stable at around 203. Good luck.

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**Scytale** · 15 August 1999, 01:20

Great, I'll try the updated version. Mine only gives 165/250, I think my memory chips will go popcorn on me when I try that setting.

**Scytale** · 15 August 1999, 02:13

Matrox and Entech Taiwan proudly present... the Ultra MAX!

Yes, this version works great! 165/220 works like a charm. I checked using G4set. I get a -very linear- 10% increase in performance at this speed (on a P2@4x112, AGP1X).

Best thing is, now I have my on the fly gamma correction back

Thanks for posting Kookstick!

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