G400, OpenGL and Celery

[Purjo]

Does anyone know if Matrox will release any drivers that doesn't require Athlon or PIII processors??

[Purjo]

Hmmm... Is there any chance that there will ever be any good OpenGL drivers that work on a Celery.. I dont want to spend lots of money on an Athlon just because some company is too lazy to optimize their drivers...

[Rags]

Purjo, I think that the current drivers offer pretty decent performance and stability on a Celeron, granted their is better performance with the TurboGL, but I believe that with a separate team doing the TurboGL, and another doing the ICD, we should be seeing good improvements with every release.

[Purjo]

Ok.. Thanks for your comments.

I hope that you are right since you now have pushed me in the direction that leads closer towards a G400 in my next box.

[hominid skull]

Purjo

The 530 drivers don't require an athlon or PIII processors to run. I have a celery 400 and the 530 turbogl drivers work fine although they are not using the SIMD optomised turbo part of the drivers until i get my new athlon when the Asus board finally comes out.. And then the g400 will really fly...

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[Maniac]

The turbo GL driver only shows notable improvement below 1024X768. I wouldn't worry about it too much unless you're still running a small monitor. A K7 would definitely improve your scores across the board. In fact if there are no more slot1/ BX compatible processors, I will definitely lean towards getting an AMD, especially once the high quality O/C capable Mobo's come out...

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster 32PNP



[This message has been edited by Maniac (edited 17 October 1999).]