Parhelia Sharkmarks

[Ant]

Benchmarks using Sharkmark that came with the Parhelia. Board is a stock retail Parhelia (no extra cooling) running on a ASUS A7S333, XP2000+ and 512MB PC2100. Driver is the latest release version 1.00.3.230 running on Windows XP Pro. The Sharkmark scores are defined as VertexFPS.

The 2 blocks of numbers represent memory and core speeds. According to Matrox the retail board is 275Mhz/220Mhz whereas the bulk offering is 250MHz/200Mhz. At a core speed of 260 Sharkmark crashes locking up the system, guess a little extra cooling may help there.


275 220 = 164.609
275 230 = 170.386
275 240 = 175.951
275 250 = 181.161
275 260 =

275 220 = 164.599
285 220 = 165.873
285 230 = 171.793
285 240 = 177.454
285 250 = 182.777
285 260 =

275 220 = 164.625
295 220 = 166.893
295 230 = 172.974
295 240 = 178.685
295 250 = 184.180
295 260 =

275 220 = 164.599
305 220 = 168.026
305 230 = 174.173
305 240 = 179.976
305 250 = 185.558
305 260 =

275 220 = 164.614
310 220 = 168.529
310 230 = 174.678
310 240 = 180.321
310 250 = 186.171
310 260 =

[Kruzin]

GASP
Overclocking?
How can I get an O/Cer for P?

[Guru]

Nice! Even nicer would be to see benchmarks from some other cpu speeds as well on the same benchmark!

[Ant]

Hopefully will do on an Athlon 1.4GHz if I can get it up n running.

[Guru]

Originally posted by Ant
Hopefully will do on an Athlon 1.4GHz if I can get it up n running.

Thanx!

[103er-Fan]

Looks interesting, any other applications tested yet?

[P5ycho]

So this is with standard cooling? i smell OC potential!!!

UT2003 benches would be really interesting...

[MK]

Hey Ant, many thanks for these valuable informations!! This clearly shows that there is a lot of unused potential due to the cooling / AGP specification thing.

Did you increase the core voltage to achieve 250 MHz core clock ? Was the card 100% stable ?

MK

[Ant]

The card is not 100% stable at 250 it will crap out after a while if I'm running Quake 3 for example, I guess I need some extra cooling.

[P5ycho]

Ant, is your case well ventilated?

[Ant]

Not really, although the P is the only card in the system. I'm going to add a little extra case cooling to see if that helps any before doing anything to the card. I'd presume from my testing that a bulk card should easily handle retail speeds.

[Ant]

Just as a bit of a comparison the figures below were obtained using the version 1.00.1.230 drvers that the board shipped with.

275 220 = 157.495
295 230 = 165.316

[Edward]

Well, when becomes the octool available ?

[az]

So have you used your special gift from Matrox for this?

AZ

[Ant]

Still waiting for that