What is the Warp Clock?

[sirfergy]

I was trying to o/c my G400 Dualhead 32 Megger, and I was just wondering what the warpclock was.

I can get my card to run fine at MAX speeds.

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[drzaius]

i'm not sure, but i just kept mine at the same speed as my core clock

[Brian R.]

It's what Scotty changes when Kirk needs more Warp speed.

[sirfergy]

Uh oh, if someone with 974 posts doesnt know, I guess I'll never know.

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[Brian R.]

Don't expect me to be an expert on video cards. I know a little about general HW, and that's it.

[Barbarella]

Briand,

didn't the word 'Warp' appear only in Star strek with the next generation (jean-luc Picard, ...)

[Brian R.]

I must be getting old. No, Kirk was always asking for warp speed.

[xortam]

"But Captian, I'm givin her all she's got!"

[Brian R.]

"Scotty - You've got about 2 hours to totally rebuild the warp drive and find 10 perfect dilithium crystals in your toolbox or the entire universe will cease to exist."

Whatever they were paying him, it wasn't enough.

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 15 August 2000).]

[ski]

If my memory serves me right the warp core on the G400 was suppose to be able to do T&L and all they had to do was write drivers for it.

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[Barbarella]

humm,

memory overflow for me, sorry . you're right.

[cjolley]

It's right next to the Woof clock.
chuck

[Nuno]

Now for real...

The WARP is a programable part of the Gx00 series chips that can execute integer or single precision floating point calculations. It´s used for the triangle setup part of the rendering process. No it can´t do T&L

[Brian R.]

Geez, just when you thought you had escaped technology discussions...

[foft]

Then WARP is used for triangle setup. i.e. when doing 3D stuff. Ordinarily it runs at the same speed at the core IIRC.

I haven't played with the WARP, so don't know if it actually makes much difference. I mean it may be fill rate bound and the WARP spends its time waiting.

Just play and see if goes quicker. If it dies buy another G400:-)

[This message has been edited by foft (edited 15 August 2000).]