New drivers and tweaker for P! {supports oc'ing}

[lecter]

BTW, I love finally having an overclocking util, but man, it's not exactly friendly or very functional...the new freq. only activates itself on reboot (at least in my case), you have to check the frequencies with good ol' Windows Calculator and the cumulative thing doesn't exactly seem to work...just my experience with it, like I said, I love finally being able to overclock this baby, but I want some Powerstrip action or smthn! Anyway, Matrox is a great example of the saying "Patience is a virtue"-great work guys!

[thop]

whats with the guy who made MGATweak, is he still around?

[DPGX]

Thanks for the .NET fix, I'll have to try it when I get home. Any chance that the SP is available on Windows Update? Because I'm pretty sure it's already installed if thats the case I downloaded the complete .NET package and SP last night, so hopefully I'll be able to fix it when I'm out of here.

Thanks,

Mike

[kjliew]

Sure, I am still around......
If you guys can pursuade Matrox to release register specs for G450/G550 and Parhelia, I will continue to develop MGATweak. Without register specs, there is no way that I can upgrade MGATweak to support Parhelia.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by GT98


Where is the uninstaller for PD1.02? Is it the add/remove programs in the control panel?

yup, the one that comes with PD1.02, through add/remove software ...

The standalone should do it also, but I think the one that came with these drivers is more recent.

[Greebe]

If you guys can pursuade Matrox to release register specs for G450/G550 and Parhelia, I will continue to develop MGATweak. Without register specs, there is no way that I can upgrade MGATweak to support Parhelia.

Sadly that information can't be released atm, if ever (official responce)

[jackzod]

Originally posted by K6-III
Just tested these drivers: MUCH BETTER THAN 1.01's....much faster in UT2k3

Strange i didnt see ANY speed increase with those drivers in UT2003, could you put some numbers ? here the flyby stays exactly the same.

On a side note my OEM P is now at retail speed without a hitch with the o/c tool. pretty nice since it costs me 160$ cdn less than a retail .

I will try to push it a little more later. It will be easy to compare since its permanently at retail speed now (nice feature). Maybe I'll do some BSmark2001superNvidiaspecialedition later.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by jackzod


Strange i didnt see ANY speed increase with those drivers in UT2003, could you put some numbers ? here the flyby stays exactly the same.

are you sure you have VSync disabled ?

[Maggi]

- Interface to activate PAL-60 mode

I'm surprised that nobody jumped on this feature yet ...

[thop]

are the OEM and RETAIL identical, except the lower clock?

[Maggi]

and the beautiful box
and the software

[jackzod]

Originally posted by Maggi


are you sure you have VSync disabled ?

Yes it is disabled in bot UT and Powerdesk, anyway since i get over 100 fps in flyby and that the refresh of my monitor at 1024x768 is 100 i guess it proves it.

On a side note, overclocking did increase flyby mode by an equal performance boost (i.e. 10% got me an increase of 10% on fps, same on BSmark2001). But the drivers themselves didn't bring any increase in UT2003, at least not in the benchmark (which is not that different from peep around).

What kind of increase peep are actually talking about, i would like to see some numbers to compare, maybe its a setting that they had on that has been turned off ?

[jackzod]

Originally posted by thop
are the OEM and RETAIL identical, except the lower clock?

retail : 220 mhz core and 275 mhz Memory

OEm: 200 Mhz core and 250 mhz Memory

Now, with a 10% increase in OEM you see you'll get 220 core and 275 memory

I will try to push it more later, I do think that i would reach same numbers as retail, since the limitation is prolly the power consuption.

And oh, most important, both support RSN...

[jackzod]

Originally posted by Maggi
and the beautiful box
and the software

Yeah I miss the box

What software are shipping with P, i couldnt find it on M site.

[Android604]

Matrox rules... I was a little worried there for a while because I had a Radeon 8500 and enjoyed it very much, I really miss the Tru-Form... and well I do more work than play on my computer but ATI 2D was doing a fine job and all...

Anyway, I worship Matrox again...

Parhelia OEM 1.01 drivers
XP 2100
Win XP

200/250 3Dmark = 6400
20% OC 240/300 = smoking 7300
20% OC 240/300 + 1.02 drivers = sizzling 7450

I love this stuff... thank you thank you thank you big M

Andrew