Time to tweak my Max

[xortam]

I've been running my G400 Max on a non-o/c'ed PIII/450 for several months and I am now ready to explore overclocking my system ... initially my graphics card. I played with the Matrox Tweak 1.00.012 Utility (AKA v1.12) when I first got the card and I got between 8-13% boost in the master clock (depending on the video mode) before I would see some sort of visual anomaly in the desktop or during a 3D benchmark. I would like to see if I can drive it a little harder and am ready to try one of the other overclocking utilities.
I remember reading a long thread arguing about the safety of using MGATweak Version 1.12. I didn't try it out because I didn't want to deal with it possibly corrupting my G400 BIOS. Does anybody still feel that this is a problem with this utility? Do you feel it has superior features to the other utilities? I heard that many PC home theatre users really like using PowerStrip 2.54 but this may not be due to its o/c'ing ability. What do you all prefer to use for the Max? Do these other utilities allow separate settings per video mode? Please include your o/c setting (specifying video mode), for the G400 Max and current drivers only. Thanks.

P.S. I also would like to limit responses (if any) to those using default busses of 100 Mhz FSB and 2x AGP bus speed of 67Mhz. Thanks again.

[This message has been edited by xortam (edited 19 December 1999).]

[Ant]

You are getting your overclockers a little mixed up. It was Powerstrip that was reported by some to corrupt the BIOS not MGA Tweak. I suggest you get MGA Tweak, read the manual and before you even overclock just do the memory optimisations it recommennds and you will see an increase in performance.

[xortam]

Thanks for the correction Ant. I'll take your advice and read up on MGATweak. I would still like to hear which settings people use for a Max on these default bus speeds. Has anyone permanently damaged their card using this utility? Are their any settings I should stay clear of to prevent possible damage?
I believe the HT folks like to drive their FPTVs using PowerStrip due to its resolution management. I don't know how its o/c features compare. I assume I still can use PD 5 Resolution Manager 2.1 with MGATweak to create any custom displays I may need. So, does anyone have a BIOS corruption problem still with PowerStrip? Are there any unique or superior features in PowerStrip that make it worth the try?

[This message has been edited by xortam (edited 19 December 1999).]