Can somebody tell me if this is right??

[Electric Amish]

Hey guys!!

I've got my G400 overclocking to Fo=310 using MGATweak but, between 280 and 310 the 3Dmarks(800x600x16) stay right about at 3900. Does this mean that I have run into the max power of my CPU? This is my guess.

TIA

Paul

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Retail Celeron 300a @ 464MHz
Abit BH6 v1.01(LN Bios)
128mb Generic PC-100 SDRAM
G400 32mb SH @ Fo=300MHz(5.30 Drivers)
Ovislink 10/100 Realtek NIC
E-Tech 56Kbps Modem
SB PCI128 Sound Card
Asus 40x CDROM
Western Digital Caviar 6.4GB (Win 98SE)
Western Digital Caviar 4.3GB (Red Hat 6.0)
17" Shamrock C708 .25 "Diamondtron" Monitor
(1) 120mm Panaflo Blow-hole
(2) 80mm Fans Card Cooler Style
(1) 80mm Fan @ case front

[Speedy]

when i overclock my card my 3Dmark scores go down

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Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 5420.49 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9142.76 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2206.33 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 63.58 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 47.24 FPS
Processor Type AMD-K7(tm) Processor
Processor Speed 500 MHz
Physical Memory 128 MB

[Rags]

Well kind of. What this means is that with the current drivers, your card is processing every bit of the information that your processor can spit out, so upping the performance of your card is having no effect on the actual performance. If you were to up the resolution somewhat higher, you would notice that there is a difference when you clock your card higher, since your cpu load will be the same as lower resolutions, but the fillrate and graphics card load is pushed upwards. Make any sense?

Rags



[This message has been edited by Rags (edited 10-12-1999).]

[Electric Amish]

Yup!!

Thanks Rags!!

Paul

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Retail Celeron 300a @ 464MHz
Abit BH6 v1.01(LN Bios)
128mb Generic PC-100 SDRAM
G400 32mb SH @ Fo=300MHz(5.30 Drivers)
Ovislink 10/100 Realtek NIC
E-Tech 56Kbps Modem
SB PCI128 Sound Card
Asus 40x CDROM
Western Digital Caviar 6.4GB (Win 98SE)
Western Digital Caviar 4.3GB (Red Hat 6.0)
17" Shamrock C708 .25 "Diamondtron" Monitor
(1) 120mm Panaflo Blow-hole
(2) 80mm Fans Card Cooler Style
(1) 80mm Fan @ case front