g400 16mb sDram?? any good?

[cptpuget]

got an oem 16mb not realizing it was sdram till i got home (stupid!}. are they garbage, how do they compare? model # G4+M4A16DG. haig, kruzin, maggi?

[athlet]

i can get the 16mb sDram up to

157/178
or
151/189

running 24/7 stable.

I tried 157/189 with 475 PLLclock, but my system was slower than with above configurations ?!?!

[Wombat]

What did they try to sell you the board as? As far as I know, that was designed only to go into OEM computers. I hope you didn't get ripped off.

[cptpuget]

sold as g400 16mb... at pricewatch you can find many examples of both 16mb/sh sdram and sgram, both priced at about $100 -$110. i bought mine over the counter in seattle for $109. what i want to know while i can still return it is... should i dump it and try to get sgram, or does it really matter?? haig did verify in a 12/1/99 thread that matrox did make both sgram and sdram 16 mb cards. he did however, deftly avoid a comparison. SOMEONE must have some insight into this. thanks

[Maggi]

Hi cptpuget,

long time no see ... where've you been so long ?

Anyway, SGRAM is superior to SDRAM, especially in the Zbuffer access.

Back when I had the MillG200 SG and the MystG200 SD I made various comparisons and at identical clockspeeds the SGRAM simply paced out the SDRAM.

I'd say go for a 32MB SG flavor ...

The extra 16MB shouldn't be such a big impact o your cash, but are very well worth it. Not only in increasing your possible screenresolutions, but also in performance.


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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 100MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Eye-Q 777 (22" with 127kHz) on primary VGA
Nokia 445Xi (21") on secondary VGA

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

[cptpuget]

thanks maggers, thought i might hear from you. anyway in case anyone is interested, this is a rev. A, 300 ramdac, 6ns card manufactured i believe in mid september. i thought all g400's were sgram and the only way i could tell was checking in powerdesk after the card was installed. it's not that i don't want the card, but i would have felt better seeing it referred to somewhere on the matrox site or even reviewed at a hardware site. maybe it wasnt meant to be sold over the counter, but this place had a bunch of them. i'd get the 32mb SH, but i cant find it locally.

haig, if you could post anything about this card or email me at kenarki@hotmail.com i would be forever in your debt....

[Rick1]

I just got a G400 16 mb card and I got it clocked at 168 ram and 168 graphics clock. Is this good? What are the settings for a G400 32 mb and G400 MAX??