Assembled in Thailand

[Shoyu]

Anyone tested or know whether G400MAX cards assembled in Thailand are any worse in performance?

[Pelle]

Why should they?

[Shoyu]

I heard cards assembled in China have a much higher defect rate. So.. wouldn't you expect them to be of lower quality and therefore worse performing?

[fds]

My MAX was assembled in Ireland and my other G400, an OEM 32mb single-head was assembled somewhere in Asia.

No problems with either one.

[Dyre]

My MAX is from Ireland, and it had hella problems to begin with. But i kept with it and its now working like a champ! Last night i got like 2500 3dMarks in 3dMark2000 so im happy. Until then i was getting like 1900.

LOL, did i just use 'hella' in a sentence? Damn ive been watching to much south park! HEheheh

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PIII 450 @ 504
generic BX motherboard
G400 MAX : )
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
64 megs PC100 RAM
128 megs PC133 RAM
NetGear 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Diamond SupraExpress 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's

[DuRaNgO]

china here, check the specs I was able to achieve below V
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400 (YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 167/208 with MGATweak-417mhz, (2.5, 2, 2.5), PD 5.41 & bios 1.5-22
Maxtor 14.3 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se & DX7
32 lbs. of fans, heatsinks and aluminum ductwork
3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s

[Snabeldykker]

Thailand, no (0) problems (ever) with G400 @ 396 (2.5, 2, 2.5).

[Shoyu]

Great! Thanks for the replies.
It's just that I'm not getting such good performance from my setup. This isn't the gaming forum :P but I get only 31fps in Q3A demo001 in 800x600, 16-bit color/texture, high details, trilinear, dynamic and marks off.

Maybe I should search for 3DMark2000 to compare.

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Shoyu
Asus P2B, Intel Celeron 466MHz, 128MB PC-100 SDRAM, Matrox G400 MAX.
DX7, Bios 1.5.22, PD5.41.008 w/TurboGL1.00.002.

[paulcs]

How are you doing with the same settings and bilinear filtering?

You can find 3DMark 2000 here:
http://www.madonion.com

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net


[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 25 January 2000).]

[Shoyu]

With the same settings and Bilinear filtering, I get 32.4fps running demo001 in Q3A.

And 3DMark2000 Results: (Thanks for the link Paul)

Setup

CPU : Intel Celeron A 466 Mhz
3D Accelerator : Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max - English
Chipset : Unknown
Resolution : 1024*768
Z-Buffer Depth : 16-bit
Frame Buffer : Triple
Refresh Rate : V Sync.Off
CPU Optimization : D3D Software T&L


Test Results

3DMark Result
1380 3D marks

CPU Speed
73 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail
30.0 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail
18.5 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail
6.8 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail
33.7 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail
16.7 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail
9.4 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)
271.9 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)
268.8 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light)
830 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (4 Lights)
624 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (8 Lights)
481 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed
213.9 FPS

16MB Texture Rendering Speed
177.3 FPS

32MB Texture Rendering Speed
94.8 FPS

64MB Texture Rendering Speed
Not enough AGP memory

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass)
98.7 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass)
128.0 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass)
227.1 FPS

Bump Mapping (Environment)
91.0 FPS


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Shoyu
Asus P2B, Intel Celeron 466MHz, 128MB PC-100 SDRAM, Matrox G400 MAX.
(DX7, Bios 1.5.22, PD5.41.008 w/TurboGL1.00.002)

[This message has been edited by Shoyu (edited 25 January 2000).]