Parhelia: New driver slower than previous?

[WyWyWyWy]

Hi all,

I revised my cooling today...
And I can now overclock to 245/655 on air.

So, I tried to do some 3dmark03.
But... it is slower than 1.03 driver??

In 1.03, my score is 1025 with 242/650.
Now 1.04, mine is 1006 with 245/655?

My Windows is pretty much the same, i.e. all apps closed all services stopped.

I notice that the fillrate is dropped quite dramatically...
Has anyone noticed the same slowdown?

Cheers.

[XHotKolaX]

Hmm..mine are faster overall. Moreso in actual games than 3DMarks though.

Mayhap you overclock too much that it's not running well?

[Kruzin]

1.8%?
Yer complaining about a measly 1.8% in 3dfart??


That little a change could be attributed to anything.
You can get a bigger variance than that running the benchmark 2 times in a row with no change to anything.

[chhfchhf]

my 220/550 3dmark03 is 817 points
with 1.04

[ElDonAntonio]

You can try increasing the AGP Aperture size in the BIOS

[WyWyWyWy]

Originally posted by Kruzin
1.8%?
Yer complaining about a measly 1.8% in 3dfart??


That little a change could be attributed to anything.
You can get a bigger variance than that running the benchmark 2 times in a row with no change to anything.

I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering... because I see no real difference in games.
And when I run it two times in a row, it is in the margin of 3 points.
And I have ran it more than two times.

Originally posted by ElDonAntonio
You can try increasing the AGP Aperture size in the BIOS

Thanks. Will try that!

[Zao]

I get ~800 with my trusty Compaq
P4 2.0
Compaq's customized Intel 845
1024 MB SDRAM 133MHz
WD 80GB
WD 120GB w/ 8MB Cache on Promise Ultra100 TX2
Matrox Parhelia-512 R 128MB
SBLive 5.1 w/ kX drivers
WinXP

[edit] I forgot to mention that my core is one of those 217 MHz thingies [/edit]


But I'm happy, since 3dMark means nothing, and what really matters is that my gaming performance feels like it has doubled since the last drivers.
Heck, I can play most games at 1600x1200 w/ full features at acceptable framerates. That includes FAA-16x, GC and 2x Aniso.

[leech]

I just have a quick question here for everyone.... why the hell do you NEED FAAx16 on when you're running at 1600x1200?

Leech

[ElDonAntonio]

Maybe he has a 50" screen...resolution means nothing if you don't know the screen size!

[XHotKolaX]

Originally posted by leech
I just have a quick question here for everyone.... why the hell do you NEED FAAx16 on when you're running at 1600x1200?

Leech

Because you can?=P

It makes Aniso Filtering looks better too, yeah?

[kudawg]

hey WYWYWYWYW, or anyone, where can I get a tweak utility for the Parheila, maybe the one you have? That show the core and clock speed!!! tnx fellas


Ku

[Tempest]

I think the one they use most is Powerstrip, http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm.
Another method of finding out clock speeds is dumping the BIOS PINS of the card, but that's a little advanced so let's not get into that.

Matrox has also made a Tech Support Tweak Utility of their own, ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/utils/t...mtstu50204.zip
but I don't think it shows exact clock speeds (can't confirm, since I don't currently use a Matrox card).

[K6-III]

Powerstrip

[kudawg]

tnx, no the matrox tweak utility does not show clock speed..

I saw some peeps in here change thier heatsink on the matrox and put one that will keep it cooler with fans! Wouldn't a coolant system work just as good?

[K6-III]

Are you referring to a phase-change cooling system???