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My Geforce DDR Experience.........and why G400 is better
Well, I happened to pass a cart at Best Buy with a nifty black box in it containing a Creative Labs Annihilator Pro for an open box price of $270....so.....i got it 
Well, I played around with it for a while. I had a heck of a time getting it to work right until I got the latest 3.65 detanator drivers, then it worked ok. It didn't like my 124MHz FSB though, but it worked with it decently.
To say it quickly, this card is VERY FAST. It wasted all of my 3DMark 99 scores on my overclocked G400 Vanilla DH. 3DMark 2000 was spiffy too. So what, they are benchmarks.
Unreal Tournament ran great at 1142x864x32-bit, I averaged 40-45fps at all times. It did have some serious low end frame rates though, especially with high rez skins (the G400 does better with them.)
Quake 3 Demo ran awesome. I think this actually uses the T&L engine somewhat. It showed. 1152x864x32-bit high quality and it was smooooth, no signs of slowdown. I really don't play much Q3 though.....
Windows 2D had some odd pauses where G400 was smooth, it looked almost as good though. Videos (AVI's and MPEGS looked somewhat worse.) It scored significantly slower in Wintune 98 at 1152x864x32-bit than my G400 @ MAX speeds...something like 84 (similar to V3 and ATI Rage 128) versus my G400 which scored around 120.
Overall, I'd say I like the Geforce DDR, just not more than my G400 and here's why....
1) Visual Quality is somewhat better
2) I got my G400 for over $150 less
3) Not THAT much slower, perfectly adequate
4) Windows 2D quality is lesser on Geforce
5) Stability problems, UT crashed, probably my 124MHz FSB but my G400 has no troubles.
6) Matrox drivers are about 20x more robust, for ex., the monitor tweaking
7) This forum, I love having Matrox people around and being able to kill them in UT (I'm Heiney BTW)
There, first hand experience with NVidia's best. It's good but it's not the best thing since sliced bread, nor........the G400!
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ABIT BH6 rev 1.0, Pentium 2 SL2W8 300MHz -> 464MHz, 192MB SDRAM, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 150/200, <b>Creative SBLive Value</b>, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC70 ATX 235watt PS,Panasonic Panasync S17
Well, I played around with it for a while. I had a heck of a time getting it to work right until I got the latest 3.65 detanator drivers, then it worked ok. It didn't like my 124MHz FSB though, but it worked with it decently.
To say it quickly, this card is VERY FAST. It wasted all of my 3DMark 99 scores on my overclocked G400 Vanilla DH. 3DMark 2000 was spiffy too. So what, they are benchmarks.
Unreal Tournament ran great at 1142x864x32-bit, I averaged 40-45fps at all times. It did have some serious low end frame rates though, especially with high rez skins (the G400 does better with them.)
Quake 3 Demo ran awesome. I think this actually uses the T&L engine somewhat. It showed. 1152x864x32-bit high quality and it was smooooth, no signs of slowdown. I really don't play much Q3 though.....
Windows 2D had some odd pauses where G400 was smooth, it looked almost as good though. Videos (AVI's and MPEGS looked somewhat worse.) It scored significantly slower in Wintune 98 at 1152x864x32-bit than my G400 @ MAX speeds...something like 84 (similar to V3 and ATI Rage 128) versus my G400 which scored around 120.
Overall, I'd say I like the Geforce DDR, just not more than my G400 and here's why....
1) Visual Quality is somewhat better
2) I got my G400 for over $150 less
3) Not THAT much slower, perfectly adequate
4) Windows 2D quality is lesser on Geforce
5) Stability problems, UT crashed, probably my 124MHz FSB but my G400 has no troubles.
6) Matrox drivers are about 20x more robust, for ex., the monitor tweaking
7) This forum, I love having Matrox people around and being able to kill them in UT
(I'm Heiney BTW)There, first hand experience with NVidia's best. It's good but it's not the best thing since sliced bread, nor........the G400!
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ABIT BH6 rev 1.0, Pentium 2 SL2W8 300MHz -> 464MHz, 192MB SDRAM, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 150/200, <b>Creative SBLive Value</b>, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC70 ATX 235watt PS,Panasonic Panasync S17
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