My Max is On the Way!!!!!!

[SJRACER]

Hello All. I have had a G400 32MB Vanilla card for a few months now. I am building a system for my Father-in-law, and am passing my G400 Vanilla up to him, and getting myself a new G400MAX. I am curiouse. How much of an increase can I expect?? The main 3d game I play now is Decent III. I LOVE my vanilla card. I am VERY anxiouse to get my new Max. Any inputs are apriciated, so thanks in advanced.


My system
Abit BE6
PIII 450
128MB PC100
G400 Vanilla 32MB (Soon to be a new MAX!!!)
SB Live Value
Maxtor 7.0Gig UDMA33
40X CDROM
4X4X24 HP CD Writer
LS-120 Superdisk


Gotta Luv that G400....Matrox has done it once again!!!

[Green]

I had to get mine over seas (Hong Kong!)

It was well worth the $1000 ticket price!!

[Dyre]

You probably wont see to much of an increase on your processor. On a faster chip it would run much faster

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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 ECC 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

[RoGuE]

There isn't a big difference in performance regardless of CPU. (IMHO).

[paulcs]

I saw some interesting numbers on the Vanilla in Anand's recent review of that weird blue Gigabyte G400. On a PIII 733 MHz and with the 5.50 beta drivers, the Vanilla was producing some very respectable numbers. In fact, it was cleaning a TNT2 Ultra's clock. (Again, this was a Vanilla.)

It got me interested in the scalability of the Vanilla at stock speeds. I built a new system recently, and I'm going to replace the PII 400 I stuck in it temporarily with a Coppermine PIII 600 I managed to get my hands on. I've already benchmarked Quake3 with the PII at 400 and 468 MHz (4x117). Hopefully, I'll be able to test the Vanilla with the Coppermine at 600, 672, and 702 MHz over the weekend. (My fingers are crossed.)

I have a Max in my primary system along with a 600 MHz Katmai. It should be interesting to see if and when the Vanilla overtakes the Max using faster CPU speeds.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[SJRACER]

Thanks for all the Inputs guys. I cant wait to get my Max and see for myself. It should be here Monday sometime!!!


SJRACER

[jsb]

And i thought vanilla was an ice cream flavor? Stupid me.

[DuRaNgO]

you have a P3-450 on a BE6 mobo and you're running it @ default speed? what's this world coming to !?!




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PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400 (vanilla!!!) 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

[mkaresh]

I've benchmarked my system at various clock speeds and G400 speeds.

Here's 3dmark2000. It's just one benchmark, but the other synthetics track much the same way:

500/126/168 2461
500/160/180 2634
585/137/183 2666
667/126/168 2823
667/150/180 3052
667/160/180 3107
692/163/183 3155

So overclocking the card so that it probably has a slight edge over a stock Max yields 170 points. Going from 500mhz to 667 is worth about 360 points. So it appears that a Max is worth about 80-100mhz of CPU on this benchmark.

The interesting thing is that there is a synergy between CPU speed and G400 speed. Overclocking the card and CPU is not worth 170+360=530 points, but 645.

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PIII 500e @667
Soyo SY6BA+IV
Iwill Slotket II
G400 32MB DH @144/180
Nokia 445Xi 21"
Aureal Vortex Superquad
128MB PC133
IBM DPTA 20.5GB 7200rpm
Toshiba 8/40 DVD

[paulcs]

Maybe this has something to do with overclocking the board, the increased speed of the CPU, *and* the fact that the FSB and AGP slot are also running above spec.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Big Lar]

it does make a difference/ read My results.... My cpu speed is faster.. Don't ask me/ but it is... I guess it's hard to believe/ < for me also > but I don't think my results lie. If any 1 wants them/ I'll transfer them to my aol dl file and send em/ as I do not know how to post them here/ suffice to say that my cpu speed changed by 40 to the plus side with the Max.

[mkaresh]

Not doubting your results, Big Lar. But could the jump (in CPU Speed at least) be from switching drivers rather than switching cards?

Others report highly varying results with 3dmark, but mine always seem to be very consistent with past tests. My CPU Speed especially never varies more than a couple points for a given mhz/RAM latency setting.

[This message has been edited by mkaresh (edited 05 February 2000).]