OCing like a MaggiFo

[Himself]

Maggi,

Depends on how you look at it, if you want to play 3DMark2K a lot then the Athlon T&L scores are better, otherwise I kind of prefer the higher fps scores. Like I said these scores are a bit lower than I'm used to, I haven't bothered to restore my normal V3 drivers yet.

It's interesting that the software T&L gives the highest 1 light performance of all.

[Himself]

yepitsme,

Not sure what you mean, you have two scores, one at 800x600 and one at 1024x768.

[Electric Amish]

I'd put in my 2 cents, but my system decided to self-destruct on saturday evening.

amish

[yepitsme]

Nice score for a P2 233@333...
http://gamershq.madonion.com/product...?&dprid=832627

hmmm...

[Maggi]

Thanx for you intense feedback, Himself !!!



What immediately caught my eye when looking at your texture rendering scores was the extreme superiority of using those Athlon routines over hard- & software T&L !

...

yepitsme:

thanx for throwing in your scores and make sure VSync is disabled, if it wasn't, rerun the tests and repost your scores.



Cheers,
Maggi

[CuCu13]

G400+32MB@6ns(125/166)=>158/210(VERY STABLE)
3DMark2000: G400@150/200+Cely@950=>3200Marks

[yepitsme]

Hi Maggi an Himself

All scores are default

Resolution 1024x768 16 bit
Z-Buffer Depth 16-bit
Frame Buffer Triple
Refresh Rate V Sync.Off
CPU Optimization Intel(R) Pentium(R) III

Dual head disabled
Apps running ( WIN98 )

Explorer
Pdesk
Systray
Em-exec

#dmark scores stay around 2250 no matter
what i do, setting FSB to 100x8 no difference, AGP to 1/1 or 2/3 same,
memory settings 2-2-2 to 3-3-3 same,
Powerdesk 16/32 no difference etc.

IRQ shared with "ACPI IRQ holder for PCI IRQ
steering" ( IRQ 11 )

OK, i installed Powerstrip 3.0 b and it shows that default

Engine clock is 217,04MHz

and

Memory clock 289,43MHz ???

I removed Powerstrip, downloaded and installed it again with same results,
not quite same as Maggis Ec&Mc,
so i tried overclock it slightly
( i think PS doesn't give real clockspeeds
but as they were at PS ) ec230/3dmark 2377,
240/3d 2473 points. So overclocking shows some results easily, but still this system is lacking around 10% of G450's scores.

Interesting....

Thanks again

[gbm]

Just to extend the "mine is bigger than yours" thread:
My G450 is at 189 MCLK, 151 GCLK for about 2 months now. Mounted a small fan on the heatsink (otherwise it was getting too hot). It also works at 183 MCLK and GCLK, bringing some more impressive results, but I decided not to push it that far on regular basis.

[yepitsme]

Those clock speeds above are default speeds that power strip gives = no any kind
overclocking.
I just would like optimize this system to
work properly, not over clock it. ( yet )

Thanks

[yepitsme]

Here i go again, new drivers installed and
seems like problems are gone.
Once again reinstalled powerstrip gives
default engine clock as 108MHz, in Maggis
post it was 125MHz. If i set it to 125MHz
everything looks to work allright.
Maybe little oc next...

CPU Intel Pentium III 896MHz

3D Accelerator Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead - English

Chipset Unknown

Resolution 1024x768 16 bit

Z-Buffer Depth 16-bit

Frame Buffer Triple

Refresh Rate V Sync.Off

CPU Optimization Intel(R) Pentium(R) III





3DMark Result 2650 3D marks

CPU Speed 284 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 50.45 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 35.31 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 15.00 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 45.48 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 41.44 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 33.14 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 239.05 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 239.72 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light) 2,819 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 2,705 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 2,473 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed 144.73 FPS

16MB Texture Rendering Speed 139.39 FPS

32MB Texture Rendering Speed 111.14 FPS

64MB Texture Rendering Speed 97.34 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass) 59.26 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass) 78.44 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass) 134.13 FPS

Bump Mapping (Environment) 68.47 FPS


Thanks for your help everybody !

[yepitsme]

well, if "overclocked" to 125MHz games
crash and i get graphics errors in
CFS2 and CMR 2.

Back to low defaults and slow games....

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For...ML/003387.html

[yepitsme]

Thanks Matrox, this solved a lot:

We unfortunately cannot comment on this. but it is possible that clocks value are different depending on the revision of the card and dividers used. You might get more help at www.murc.ws on pin structures and values used.
------------------
Alex
Matrox Graphics
Technical Support Supervisor (Graphics)

So any unofficial help here ? Alex ?

Thanks again
Petri

[Greebe]

Even us BB's cannot comment on that one.

[yepitsme]

e-mail me i won't tell anyone

Petri

petri.vayrynen@pp.htv.fi

[Greebe]

Sorry I won't do that.