Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP

Name: Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP
Item: Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi

by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 3, 2000 4:02 AM EST

Posted in
GPUs

0 Comments | Add A Comment

0 Comments

The Competition

Let’s take a look at the competing cards and their approximate costs:

Matrox Millennium G400 (32MB) DualHead - $179
Matrox Millennium G400 (16MB) DualHead - $149
NVIDIA TNT2 (32MB) - $100
NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra (32MB) - $150

And then we have the Gigabyte cards:

Gigabyte GA-MG400 (16MB) - $90
Gigabyte GA-MG400 (32MB) - $120

The Test

We were limited in our motherboard choices since the motherboard had to support Gigabyte's VGA BIOS on Motherboard technology, thus we picked the GA-6CX, an i820 Motherboard, and the GA-7IX, a Slot-A Athlon motherboard for the tests.

Windows 98 SE Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)	Intel Pentium III 733 provided by Memman Intel FC-PGA Pentium III 550E provided by Azzo	AMD Athlon 800 AMD Athlon 500
Motherboard(s)	Gigabyte GA-6CX	Gigabyte GA-7IX
Memory	128MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM provided by Mushkin	128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive	IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66
CDROM	Phillips 48X
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GA-MG400 16MB (default clock - 125/166) Matrox Millennium G400 16MB DualHead (default clock - 125/166) Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead (default clock - 125/166) NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB (default clock - 125/150) NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)
Ethernet	Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
Software
Operating System	Windows 98 SE
Video Drivers	All G400 Cards used the Matrox 5.50.005 Drivers All NVIDIA cards used the Detonator 3.68 Drivers
Benchmarking Applications
Gaming	GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3

Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP

Post Your Comment

0 Comments

View All Comments

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now