Roland's answer for why 41fps with Q3A Timedemo 001 1024x768x32 High Quality MAX..

[JackYi]

First off, thanks for your reply - I'm glad you read my review....

In regards to the benchmark number, I did run Quake3 (default version) at 1024x768x32 @ HQ MAX settings on my P!!! test-bed.

However, I must confess - my system is mildly overclocked. I run my P!!! 1Ghz on an Abit BX133-RAID motherboard (135Mhz FSB / 90Mhz AGP) and that's why I get those values. I also have 192MB of RAM running at CAS2, and I was using BETA Matrox drivers for the test (which I received direct from Matrox), so there may be performance gains in this new driver revisions.

A question - what's your system specs?

From my extensive testing with Matrox hardware, the GPU seems limited at CPU speeds below 650Mhz - it's when you go past that and into high-end P!!!/Athlon territory that you get decent 3D performance.

Hope this helps -
Roland Braganza
www.rolotech.com

Here I thank Roland for replying for the e-mail I sent him yesterday regarding the 41fps he got.


[This message has been edited by JackYi (edited 22 March 2001).]

[Kruzin]

Please post this in the thread you already have running.
There is no need to scatter one conversation across many threads.