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  • Blue Orb, & Best Drivers??

    Ok, First off I was wondering if anyone has sucessfully mounted a Blue Orb on their G400 (MAX) using the pins. It looks as though it would make contact with the ram chips, so would you have to file it down??
    Also, which driver revision do you guys find offer the best performance?
    Finally, I have a G400 MAX, and Madonion's site reads my card as the vanilla, and therefore puts me in their category, which throws things off for comparison. I wonder if this is because everywhere else in windows it mentions nothing about it being the Max version as well, though I know it is since it runs @ the standard 150 clock. Any ideas?
    This was one of the first batch, and it seems as though it dislikes being overclocked. I can't get it to run on a 89Mhz bus, nor will it like running @ 115% without artifacting. I am looking for perfoarmance gains, but seem to be rather limited.

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    Max's aren't very oc'able anywaz. Well at least in comparison to the Vanilla's.

    I think you'd be better off leaving on the decent stock fan, and put on a small 486 hsf on the back of the card using thermal tape.

    The general consensus is that the 6.10 and 5.52 drivers are best. With some OGL games, try the 1.30 TurboGL mini-drivers as well. They may or may not give a small increase over the full drivers.
    P3 650@897 | Matrox G400 32mb SH @ 175/233 | 128mb PC133 | SB Live | winME

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    • #3
      CoOL!
      that just saved me $62 Canadian! (I was gonna go with the hole sh'bang, but I have an ol' 486 fan somewhere... and thnx for the info on drivers!

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      • #4
        I got the blue orb. Yes I had to file it down. And once I got it in there, It didn't make a very good contact on the g400max's core. I put some thermal tape, and is still left it with gaps. Blue orb isn't all that great, maybe it is, just not for the G400max

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