Whaddaya know, I have a Max

[agallag]

I was just, on a whim, installing a fan on my g400. I guess I didn't really look at it before I threw it in my case (I was pretty excited you know), because BAM, staring me right in the face, was a little white fan connector and memory chips with little "-5"'s on them.

Overclockin' I will go...

I'll report back on my results.

--
Andrew

[KvHagedorn]

Whoa.. lucky, lucky. Yours isn't the first reported here. I wonder how many of these stealth MAXes there really are? Perhaps several that just barely failed the test?

Still waiting for my MAX

Kind Regards,

KvH

[agallag]

Update. I've just been playing midtown madness for 2 hours with my SCLK at 300MHz (150 GCLK/200 MCLK) with not a single hiccup. I guess it should've been a max after all I'm glad now that I cancelled my max order and went for the vanilla.

Now, if only I could run expendable. It still just crashes immediately to the desktop within 5 seconds of launching. Oh well, it's not really my kind of game anyway.

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Andrew Gallagher - andrew@agallagher.com
Asus P2B-S (1010), PII-350 (3.5x100MHz), 64MB PC100, 12.7GB Quantum Fireball EX ATA-33, 2x2.1GB Quantum Atlas I UWSCSI, Toshiba 6201 SCSI CD, Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW, WangDAT SCSI, MillG400 32MB DH w/ 5ns RAM(5.13 Divers/1.5 Bios/300MHz SCLK), SBLive! Retail (LiveWare2.1), JVC RX884V Dolby Digital Receiver@500W, Dell 17" (first head), ProScan 27" NTSC TV (second head), Win98SE, BeOS 4.5.1, RedHat 6.0, NT4SP5

[KvHagedorn]

Does anyone know if you can O/C the RAMDAC? Or is Andrew still stuck at 300mhz?

Kind Regards,

KvH

[Smiff.]

agallag: i had the same thing with expendable, just play with the graphics options and choose a lower res/bit depth. Voila! It works

Why would you want to o/c the RAMDAC? 300Mhz is bloody good already!

Smiff

[This message has been edited by Smiff. (edited 08-29-1999).]

[Kruzin]

The RAMDAC can't be changed.

At least not till someone comes up with a way to hack the BIOS like we did on the G200s.

Where has GBM been latly, anyway??? He's the BIOS hacker we need...

[Nuno]

agallag: Try clocking it higher. My vannilla 32 Mb -6 ns does 150/200 too (153/204 without screen corruption), so thats not exceptional for a 5ns memory board. Go for it.

[agallag]

I don't think I need a faster ramdac to run at 1024x768x75Hz (crappy monitor).

I'll try expendable at a lower res tonight, thanks for the tip.

[franksch3]

Hey, another person who can run his G400 at MAX speed without problems. Do you have a fan attached? Mine runs stable at that clockspeed without using a fan. At 160/200 it crashes when 3D is used. Could a fan help in that instance?

Frank Schoondermark

[agallag]

Franksh3, a fan might help, but it's not likely.

Nuno, I don't think going any higher will help much, considering I've got a major processor (350 MHz) and memory (64MB, major swapfile activity) bottleneck now

[Meek]

For Expendable I would first check the
sound settings. There does not seem to
be any auto-detect in this game...

M.

[agallag]

I've already tried it with sound disabled. Still no go.

[Nuno]

agallag: It was just for the fun of seeing how far it would go...

[agallag]

Ok nuno, I'll see how far I can push it

[KvHagedorn]

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