G200 8 to 16 MB Upgrade do me any good?

[Hugh G Recshun]

The G200 smokes the TNT in image quality, unless you are colorblind and can't see very well anyways. The TNT at resolutions above 1024 are seriously defunct when comparing to a G200 or even a millenium for that matter.

Hugh G

[paul]

Mole, My games seem to work best with AGP aperture at 64 MB

I purchased the 8mb upgrade from a fellow netizen and found it did very little. I run at 1280X1024 32bit. Games really dont give good fps above 800X600@32 or 1024X768@16 w/8mb or 16mb installed. Maybe because I cant get AGP2x keeps me searching.

My Powerslide v1.04 testing shows:
Track Res Bpp Avg.FPS
Dam 1024 16 38
Dam 800 32 32
Dam 1024 32 29
Dam 1280 16 25
Dam 1280 32 13

Still testing my card w/3dmark 99 (demo), will post after I have had enough of re-booting and re-installs of the 10 or so drivers that Matrox keeps spitting out. Ptui! I can see another one coming. Better stand downwind...

OK, in all fairness, Via's keeping me busy, too.

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k6-3 450 @500 - tyan 1590s bios 1.16 - wdac310100 - g200 mill sgram w/8mb upgrade & bios 2.6-20 PD 5.25 - AGP1x - 128MB 10ns sdram - sblive value 2.1 - 3com 3c905b-tx - cable access (28.8k for emergencies) - win98 service pack 1 + 2
dx7

[paul]

sorry, my 800X600 @32 = 51fps

[Marshmallowman]

I thought with the increase from 8 to 16 meg you could enable triple buffering in most games and gain approx 10% icrease in speed.
(I haven't tried it myself)
But you can overclock a 16 meg card less.

I have a 8meg g200 clocked up 214 with gclk , I think if I added another 8 meg I would loose most of that gain
(ps have replaced heatsink with socket 7 fan heatsink combo)