Good old G400

[Topha]

Had to throw out my 2 1/2 year old radeon and exchange it for my much much older G400 Max (dont know how old it is really, bought it shortly after it came out).

Hadnt used it for years, only to give it to friends who had trouble with their PC and needed to check out if it was the video card or not.

still runs perfectly normal as far as i can tell, unlike that radeon, which i think started dying about 2 years after i got it

[Tjalfe]

I use one here at work.. works great still. It also plays UT2K4 with very playable framerates at 800x600, though it does not look as pretty as my R9500 PRO at home

[Ribbit]

Just curious Topha - what model Radeon was it, and who made it?

Still using my G400Max here, but I think I'm about to pick up a FireGL 8800 off eBay.

[KvHagedorn]

(touch wood)

I've been using my G400MAX every day for 4 1/2 years now. Computer is usually on, too.

[xortam]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
(touch wood)

I've been using my G400MAX every day for 4 1/2 years now. Computer is usually on, too.

Ditto.

[Topha]

It was (or still is at the moment, not decided what to do with it yet) an AIW Radeon 8500DV made by Hercules.

[JFrancisco]

I have a Matrox G-400/Rainbow Runner G set-up that I've never been able to do anything (capture good video from TV or VCR) with. The video files I do get sometimes are useless; the quality is bad. When I try to edit them, the quality just gets worse. The set-up came with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5 that I have recently up
graded to ver. 7 (but have not had a chance to use yet). The problems I had before were system lock-ups, unacceptable rates of dropped frames, etc. Any advice from anyone?
Saludos de
JFrancisco

[Wombat]

JFrancisco, there's a forum here on MURC called "Desktop Video." There are tons of experts over there, and most of them don't come read these parts of the forums. You should go read/post over there, they're much better equipped to help you.

[xortam]

He already knows about the DV forum Wombat.

[dZeus]

Doesn't mean this is not the wrong forum to post such issues in xortam

[xortam]

Originally posted by dZeus
Doesn't mean this is not the wrong forum to post such issues in xortam

True ... just pointing out that he's already been there.

[G400SG16mb]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
(touch wood)

I've been using my G400MAX every day for 4 1/2 years now. Computer is usually on, too.

My suspicion is that the G400 models with fans were much more reliable.
The fanless G400s could maintain a somewhat 'warm' core temperature. If your case and room temp are high, it'd probably decrease its working life. Mine died after all.

[Kruzin]

My G400 has also been on 24/7 for years (before they where available), still use it daily at work for CAD and general office stuff. Great old card. Regular retail G400, BIOS hacked to MAX, 486 fan slapped on the G200 heatsink it uses

[Nowhere]

G400 (16mb SH passive heatsink) also here, almost 4 years old, running 24/7 for 2 years. I was thinking about upgrade couple of times, but ultimately G400 is still with me...I think I didn't really need something faster in 3D.

[Neomagic_Twist]

I have my trusty old G400MAX in my gentoo linux moviebox. The Tv-out is astonishing (even better than dvdmax in windows, but it is a custom job tho).

Once I cleaned the fan and heatsink and forgot to hook up the fan again. It ran for a couple of weeks without any kind of cooling (and that box is fairly ill-ventilated as it is), and it lived. Testament to the quality if you ask me. Still running fine now (altho cooled )