Those mod'ing their cards. Are you overclocking?

[Greebe]

Maniac, I am NOT (read NOT!!!) OCing my card. Cooling is important to longest life expectency. If you have a problem understanding that FACT then I would suggest a few electroshock therapy sessions may just help.

1 of the biggest mistakes you can ever make on the MURC is call a BB a lier.

[Stringy]

Well appearently there "will" be a utility coming very soon...
From the mouth of Tech support:

Posted by Haig:
Alot of people here and on murc are curious about o/c'ing P and I have posts pretty much scattered all over the place. In order to prevent people going back n forth, here's what you should all know.
All retail and bulk versions can be o/c'ed by a few %ages.

Since not all electronic components are made equal, not everyone will be able to get the same %age even if you mod the HSF.

We'll be adding an o/c'er in the 2nd release of tech supp tweaker with P support. 1st release will be out in a few weeks.

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Haig
Matrox Graphics
Technical Support Manager

Linkage to the Matrox forum

soon
Craig

[Sasq]

hmm, lets see, here I am at 11pm at night or so, and my pc room is an ambient of 30c or so, my pc's run 24/7. gets to 35c/36c in this room during the day.
I'm not rich enough to run the a/c 24/7 as well.

Nope, can't think of a single reason why (even tho its at stock speed) I have an bigger fan on my stock HS on the XP1800+, no idea at all why I have hdd coolers, extra case fans, plus the 120mm fan with blow hole in the bottom of the case. nup no idea at all

Dan

[GT98]

Originally posted by Sasq
hmm, lets see, here I am at 11pm at night or so, and my pc room is an ambient of 30c or so, my pc's run 24/7. gets to 35c/36c in this room during the day.

Damn thats pretty damn toasty in there....about 87ish F for us people using still using F. How much do the PCs add to the heat in the room though? I my room at home is like 10x12 or so and if I leave my PC on it can raise the Room temp up a good 5-7 degrees..Nice when the heat gets turned down at night though in the winter

[Sasq]

I don't use the heater so much in winter , I have 2 of the 4 turned off atm (thats why i stopped producing genome units) just waiting on some spare to set up my multi pc water cooling rig then going to force the hot air out of the vent

But yeah it does raise the ambient by 4c or so with all of them running. (only 2 monitors though, one crt & 1 lcd - VNC is a wonderful thing)

Dan

[ALBPM]

Shit!! Most of you guys haven't been around here long enough to know that it's a "Tradition" for the Beta Boiz to modify their cards. We've been doing this since the G200.

How many of you guys remember Maggi Super Gluing Huge fans to his G200. Or the Home made card cooler.....


We Mod or new cards in anticipation of pushing them to the limits. We don't have a "Magic" overclocking utility yet but somewhere down the road I hope we do.

FYI - My Mod reduced the temps significantly. At "idle" the GPU temp was around 34.6C now at idle it is around 32.4C. Under load it used t get up to 42.8C and now is down to 36.7C.
I have a Temp probe from my Digital Doc taped to the backside of the GPU for now.

Paul

"It's only a Friggn Card !!!"

[ALBPM]

Here's some of the comments for my G400 Mod soon after we got them.....

Good job Pauly... Sure hope with that helicopter on your card, that you screwed down your PC really good on your desk!!

....Good luck with that "disco" fan heheh

ok its startin to happen. my nice new 300.00 cue stick camein.

Yes, I am serious and don't call me Shirley
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For a few good laughs here are some of the Infamous G400 quotes
after that card was released.

G400 Famous quotes


Paul

[DGhost]

Originally posted by pgde


Amen! Do you happen to know if XP calls the HLT command (probably not)?

Windows 2000 and Windows XP will do it as part of ACPI's thermal and power control features. to my knowledge, if you have ACPI disabled it won't do it.

[Stringy]

ALBPM
Yes but also remember that you could O/C your G400 with the G200.com and MGATweak right from the get go..
not to mention Powerstrip was able to do so as well, if I remember correctly it did it before complete release...

I do remember the G200 days, but not details, only a slide show of still images
there have always been pretty adventurous O/C'ers[cooling engineers] here...

Whichever should be out in a month or so...



Craig
BTW, your right it's only a Gfx card, using Profanity and getting all hot and bothered is pointless

[Joel]

Sorry about that guys. I just have a problem with someone assuming that just because they would be overclock if they were adding extra cooling that if someone else says otherwise then they are a liar.

Joel

[Ryu Connor]

Windows 2000 and Windows XP will do it as part of ACPI's thermal and power control features. to my knowledge, if you have ACPI disabled it won't do it.

It should do it under Standard PC as well. NT4 would issue the HLT command and it didn't even support APM.

[Snakebitten]

Geez, you flamers need to quit. (Mostly because I didn't remove email notification and I have like 20 emails just on this subject)

I was just asking a simple question. If the beta people aren't overclocking than I'm fine with that. Was just asking if there was a special OCing tool yet or if PS worked.

No need to throw out flames over what some of you consider "a conspiracy theory" over why Beta testers are moding their cards.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Joel
Sorry about that guys. I just have a problem with someone assuming that just because they would be overclock if they were adding extra cooling that if someone else says otherwise then they are a liar.

Joel

Not sure what you're trying to say there, but I'm assuming that's in reference to my last post.

When I was reading this thread I didn't realize who was posting the comments about modding. Testers for Matrox have agenda's and responsibilities they must complete. They are not in the same category as everyone else.

Having said that, I am certain at some point even they will try one of the tweak utils floating around and have a go at O/C (if they already haven't done so) If not then I retract my previous statement as it does not apply to you.

[Joel]

Testers for Matrox have agenda's and responsibilities they must complete. They are not in the same category as everyone else.

That's true we are not, but one of our agendas is not seeing how far we can push our cards before they blow up.

Joel

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Joel


That's true we are not, but one of our agendas is not seeing how far we can push our cards before they blow up.

Joel

Joel you as a beta tester should know that O/C will not "blow up" anything. What will happen when done right, is you are simply pushing the component as far as it will go being 100% stable(little increments at a time), before artifacts appear, and then complete lockup.