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  • My Max is On the Way!!!!!!

    Hello All. I have had a G400 32MB Vanilla card for a few months now. I am building a system for my Father-in-law, and am passing my G400 Vanilla up to him, and getting myself a new G400MAX. I am curiouse. How much of an increase can I expect?? The main 3d game I play now is Decent III. I LOVE my vanilla card. I am VERY anxiouse to get my new Max. Any inputs are apriciated, so thanks in advanced.


    My system
    Abit BE6
    PIII 450
    128MB PC100
    G400 Vanilla 32MB (Soon to be a new MAX!!!)
    SB Live Value
    Maxtor 7.0Gig UDMA33
    40X CDROM
    4X4X24 HP CD Writer
    LS-120 Superdisk


    Gotta Luv that G400....Matrox has done it once again!!!
    Bitte ein Bit

  • #2
    I had to get mine over seas (Hong Kong!)

    It was well worth the $1000 ticket price!!

    It's not a typo...it's probably corrupt graphics generated by your overclocked video card...

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    • #3
      You probably wont see to much of an increase on your processor. On a faster chip it would run much faster

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      PIII 450 @ 504
      generic BX motherboard
      G400 MAX : )
      Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
      Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
      Creative 36x CD-ROM
      HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
      64 megs PC100 RAM
      128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
      NetGear 10/100
      Soundblaster 32 AWE
      Diamond SupraExpress 56k
      Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
      1 92mm Sunon Fan
      4 80mm Sunon Fan's


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      • #4
        There isn't a big difference in performance regardless of CPU. (IMHO).

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        • #5
          I saw some interesting numbers on the Vanilla in Anand's recent review of that weird blue Gigabyte G400. On a PIII 733 MHz and with the 5.50 beta drivers, the Vanilla was producing some very respectable numbers. In fact, it was cleaning a TNT2 Ultra's clock. (Again, this was a Vanilla.)

          It got me interested in the scalability of the Vanilla at stock speeds. I built a new system recently, and I'm going to replace the PII 400 I stuck in it temporarily with a Coppermine PIII 600 I managed to get my hands on. I've already benchmarked Quake3 with the PII at 400 and 468 MHz (4x117). Hopefully, I'll be able to test the Vanilla with the Coppermine at 600, 672, and 702 MHz over the weekend. (My fingers are crossed.)

          I have a Max in my primary system along with a 600 MHz Katmai. It should be interesting to see if and when the Vanilla overtakes the Max using faster CPU speeds.

          Paul
          paulcs@flashcom.net

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          • #6
            Thanks for all the Inputs guys. I cant wait to get my Max and see for myself. It should be here Monday sometime!!!


            SJRACER
            Bitte ein Bit

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            • #7
              And i thought vanilla was an ice cream flavor? Stupid me.

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              • #8
                you have a P3-450 on a BE6 mobo and you're running it @ default speed? what's this world coming to !?!




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                PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
                128mb pc-100
                Mill G400 (vanilla!!!) 32mb @ 167/208 with MGATweak-417mhz, (2.5, 2, 2.5), PD 5.41 & bios 1.5-22
                Maxtor 14.3 gb Uata66 hdd
                SB Live!
                Winblows 98se & DX7
                32 lbs. of fans, heatsinks and aluminum ductwork
                3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
                Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
                Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
                Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
                Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
                Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s


                System 1:
                AMD 1.4 AYJHA-Y factory unlocked @ 1656 with Thermalright SK6 and 7k Delta fan
                Epox 8K7A
                2x256mb Micron pc-2100 DDR
                an AGP port all warmed up and ready to be stuffed full of Parhelia II+
                SBLIVE 5.1
                Maxtor 40g 7,200 @ ATA-100
                IBM 40GB 7,200 @ ATA-100
                Pinnacle DV Plus firewire
                3Com Hardware Modem
                Teac 20/10/40 burner
                Antec 350w power supply in a Colorcase 303usb Stainless

                New system: Under development

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                • #9
                  I've benchmarked my system at various clock speeds and G400 speeds.

                  Here's 3dmark2000. It's just one benchmark, but the other synthetics track much the same way:

                  500/126/168 2461
                  500/160/180 2634
                  585/137/183 2666
                  667/126/168 2823
                  667/150/180 3052
                  667/160/180 3107
                  692/163/183 3155

                  So overclocking the card so that it probably has a slight edge over a stock Max yields 170 points. Going from 500mhz to 667 is worth about 360 points. So it appears that a Max is worth about 80-100mhz of CPU on this benchmark.

                  The interesting thing is that there is a synergy between CPU speed and G400 speed. Overclocking the card and CPU is not worth 170+360=530 points, but 645.

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                  PIII 500e @667
                  Soyo SY6BA+IV
                  Iwill Slotket II
                  G400 32MB DH @144/180
                  Nokia 445Xi 21"
                  Aureal Vortex Superquad
                  128MB PC133
                  IBM DPTA 20.5GB 7200rpm
                  Toshiba 8/40 DVD
                  PIII 500e @667
                  Soyo SY6BA+IV
                  Iwill Slotket II
                  G400 32MB Max
                  Nokia 445Xi 21"
                  and POS 14"
                  Aureal Vortex Superquad
                  256MB PC133
                  IBM DPTA 20.5GB 7200rpm
                  Toshiba 8/40 DVD

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                  • #10
                    Maybe this has something to do with overclocking the board, the increased speed of the CPU, *and* the fact that the FSB and AGP slot are also running above spec.

                    Paul
                    paulcs@flashcom.net

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                    • #11
                      it does make a difference/ read My results.... My cpu speed is faster.. Don't ask me/ but it is... I guess it's hard to believe/ < for me also > but I don't think my results lie. If any 1 wants them/ I'll transfer them to my aol dl file and send em/ as I do not know how to post them here/ suffice to say that my cpu speed changed by 40 to the plus side with the Max.

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                      • #12
                        Not doubting your results, Big Lar. But could the jump (in CPU Speed at least) be from switching drivers rather than switching cards?

                        Others report highly varying results with 3dmark, but mine always seem to be very consistent with past tests. My CPU Speed especially never varies more than a couple points for a given mhz/RAM latency setting.

                        [This message has been edited by mkaresh (edited 05 February 2000).]
                        PIII 500e @667
                        Soyo SY6BA+IV
                        Iwill Slotket II
                        G400 32MB Max
                        Nokia 445Xi 21"
                        and POS 14"
                        Aureal Vortex Superquad
                        256MB PC133
                        IBM DPTA 20.5GB 7200rpm
                        Toshiba 8/40 DVD

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