somebody-explain-my-low-scores

[R-u-Ready]

ok so what does it take to hit 4500 or even 5000?

cel 450a
128mg pc100
ata66 quantum fireball ka
g400 32 vanilla
mx300

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[R-u-Ready]

what exactly are the most ideal settings for the highest possible scores. I have a little competition with a TNT owner who is currently winning and I know that its just some settings or something I need to change to finally beat him.

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[SteveC]

Guyver - I can only try... their's (Jord's & Hol's) is much more mushy though...

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Cheers,
Steve

[SteveC]

ERm, back to the topic - 'R-U-Ready' - you'll need a PIII to get the silly high scored I think.

I get 4400 on my PII-333 @ 500Mhz with a plain G400 32mb DH running at MAX speeds. And that's with vsync on.

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Cheers,
Steve

[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 09-03-1999).]

[Liquid Snake]

Hmm, I've hit 5200 with my MAX but then again, I have a P3-550...

[GD]

guyver.... your result is @ 800x600?
My highest score with a millenium G200 was 3108... it overclocked awfully though... it was a rev A...

[R-u-Ready]

SteveC

Your still beating me by 650 marks? There has to be something im doing wrong. Is overclocking the g400 gonna put me up that high or should it do that without o/c? I know you are running 50 more mhz than me but does that make that substantial of a difference?

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[SteveC]

The driver (MAX or not) makes no difference to the speed. They are they same card, just clocked differently, and that is not up to the drivers to control. I would just use the normal G400 DualHead drivers.

Back to the ruining of the thread:
Ami - what are you doing looking at Ash's pants? Here's where the action is...
And I have no competition from smiff? Cool. She's outta your league smiffy, you hear that?

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Cheers,
Steve

[PurpleHaze]

R-u-Ready : Nice sig

Guyver: Don't have to try. I just do. And

Ash: I was complementing your pants but now that you're wearing cordoroy bell-bottoms, ehhhh.

-- Anyways. Im on a mission here. I'm going to try to find a MAX this weekend. (riiight)
.. On my system, theoretically, it should show some pretty good BM's (That's benchmarks, sicko)

R-U-Ready: -do- you have vsync on? Personally, I think that the want for framerates higher than your refresh rate is kind of silly anyways but if you're just trying to push things through the chip and clock it, welluh, go for it. Have you tried the tweak utils here on the MURC?

.. As for overclocking, yeah yall gonna bash me but I've found that it's crap. Yeah. crap. I've noticed a 2-3 fps increase on o/cing my g200 and on some ops it'd actually suffer. Maybe bad mem, but i've always kind of never believed in overclocking these things - Intel may slow down their products but I don't see any reason why Matrox would.

i.e., "These things can run 50mhz higher but let's slow 'em down so that our competitors have an edge" ... nah.

*fIz




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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500
256MB 6NS
70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW style.

I sure do like robots.
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[siming]

Well I am running a G400 DH 32M at 198MHz/148MHz and am getting scores of about 5600 on my P3-560.
One of the very few reasons I bought the G400 instead of a Diamond Viper 770 Ultra was because only the Matrox drivers allow me to center and size the picture properly on my analog(!!) 20" monitor....(i'm trying not to kick myself here)

[PurpleHaze]

siming, i hope you mean analog(!!) controls, because if you're hooking your matrox up to a 20-inch CGA monitor well, your benchmarks aren't gonna be the only thing suffering.

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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500
256MB 6NS
70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW style.

I sure do like robots.

[red2]

Ummm, a CGA monitor is DIGITAL and the S(U)VGA ones are analog. It has something to do with the fact that analog can display limitlless number of colors while CGA did only 4.

[Randy Simons]

I'm pretty sure CGA is analog like an old clock... I remember people hooking there CGA monitors to an MSX with only a different connector. MSX only had analog output, but has many more than 4 colours.

[This message has been edited by Randy Simons (edited 09-04-1999).]

[PurpleHaze]

No, that was my point. CGA -is- digital. He said analog(!!) as if it were unusual for him to have an analog monitor. I said he -better- have an analog monitor or something's wrong

and, nah, CGA was definitely digital. It could do more than 4 colors on the monitor hardware level, sure, but not much more.