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    5.30 or 5.25+Beta ICD?

    Ok... All you guys without P3's and K7's out there, I have a question. Which combo do you use? 5.30? 5.25+Beta ICD? or maybe even 5.30+beta ICD?

    Oh yeah, I have a celeron 366@550. It's usually running at about 98-100 degrees F while not running anything intensive. If i play quake a long time (or even starcraft) the temp will go all the way up to 125. Is this too hot? I mean it still runs and doesn't crash. Is it safe to run it this hot for such a long time?

    Thanks guys!
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    The 5.30 drivers aren't limited only to people with P3s and Athlons based systems. The only difference is that you can't use the miniGL as of yet. However, the ICD that comes with the 5.30 drivers have also been improved, so you are probably better off going with the 5.30 drivers + the 5.30 ICD.

    Larry

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    • #3
      Yeah... but i don't play any of those other games that matrox made improvements in. Only q3... and the beta ICD compared to the 5.30 ICd is still faster. and i haven't found any visual improvements...

      anybody notice that every version after 5.13 renders really badly w/ 16-bit textures? bullet fire marks when they hit the wall is a bit green so are all other marks (eg. fire the plasma gun at one place and u can see it's green all around)

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      • #4
        And the 16-bit dithering should be fixed to be more smooth. It's very ugly now.

        -Tumu
        Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset (bios v3.4),
        64MB PC100 RAM, nVidia TNT2 32M (was G200 AGP 8MB SGRAM), SB Live! Value LW3.1, 3COM Fast EtherLink XL, Sony Multiscan 100ES, HP8210i
        Win98 finnish

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        • #5
          UT got a MAJOR boost in rendering speed when you have high world detail enabled, and that has nothing to do with the TurboGL (TurboGL crashes UT at the moment...)

          The pessimist says: "The glass is half empty."
          The optimist says: "The glass is half full."
          The engineer says: "I put half of my water in a redundant glass."

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          • #6
            I use celeron,so what I do is 5.30+Beta ICD.
            It runs pretty good so far.

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            • #7
              5.30 +beta ICD

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              AssuP2B ,iCeleron337, 128megs PC100, G40032megSH, Yamaha PCI sound, 2 small HD's, 42X Sony CDrom and 98SE w/shutdown patch, PD 5.30 w/beta ICD


              AMD XP2100+, 512megs DDR333, ATI Radeon 8500, some other stuff.

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              • #8
                tumu - the 5.13 icd never had the problem befor though. The problem was introduced after the 5.13 drivers that came with my card. Anybody else notice this?

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                • #9
                  If you aren't having any prob's with the beta ICD, use it! It's faster for P2/Celeron users...Currently I use 5.30 + beta ICD

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                  Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster 32PNP

                  Celeron 566@877 1.8V, 256meg generic PC-100 RAM (running at CAS2) Abit BH6, G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A(morphed to mp7060A) Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

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