Why Isn't My G400MAX as Fast as Everyone Else's?

[Excalibur]

kjliew - Thanks for the info. I guess that explains that, though I hope this isn't a horrible limitation in the long-run. I guess my old motherboard (a rev. 1 Giga-byte BX board) was limiting me only in that the BIOS didn't support anything higher.

- Excal

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PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.

[Xanty]

Ok then, so why the hell am i only scraping 1782 points in 3d mark2000 ??? and i never touched any of the settings in 3d mark 2000, i left it as is and run it straight off.

sys spec ;
AMD Duron 700 (not o/c)
Gigabyte GA7ZX motherboard
160MB PC100 RAM
1 x Western Digital 5.1Gb HD
1 x Fujitsu 6.4GB HD (both UDMA 33)
G400 MAX (latest drivers from matrox website and not o/c)
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Windows 2k (with SP1)
DirectX 8

I took a screen grab of it as well if u r interested!

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[This message has been edited by Xanty (edited 26 November 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Xanty (edited 26 November 2000).]

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Xanty:
Ok then, so why the hell am i only scraping 1782 points in 3d mark2000 ??? and i never touched any of the settings in 3d mark 2000, i left it as is and run it straight off.

1800 3DMarks2000 are too low for your system. I got ~3000 with my Athlon600 in Win98, maybe 2800 in Win2k.


Are you sure your G400Max is running in AGP2x or 4x mode? IRQ conflicts? H/W acceleration set to max?


[This message has been edited by Indiana (edited 26 November 2000).]

[rylan]

Just ran the 3DM2K a few times at default settings. Averaged ~3600 3dmarks. One of my friends who has a 1GHz T-Bird got a little bit higher than me, so it looks like the MAX hits its limit around here.

My system is an AMD Duron 800@1GHz, 256MB PC133 CAS2.

[Xanty]

I have just checked my device manager and there r no device conflicts, and my G400 MAX is on its own, on IRQ9, not sharing. And hardware acceleration is on full?????
And im pretty sure my board is using AGP2x at least, as my mobo supports 4x, and i just tried the desktop diagnostics and bus mastering is working fine. I have also just checked my mobo bios and it is on 2x AGP at the moment.

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[This message has been edited by Xanty (edited 27 November 2000).]

[Xanty]

Well, i have just created a dual boot, win98 and 2k, and in 98 i get 2800 odd now, but i am still low on 2k, and i cant find out how to change me irqs round in 2k ???

[fury]

I was perusing Usenet the other day reguarding sound cards. Those who had the SBLive reported significant loss of fps.

Maybe 'yall should try rerunning the tests with a different sound card?

[Technoid]

On my old BX board i Usualy had AGP set to 256 and W9x reported half of that amount : 128!!