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20th June 2013

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Physical: The Card & The Marvel Connector Box
Installation, Drivers & DualHead Display Tech Talk
2D Quality & Performance + 256-bit DualBUS Architecture Tech Talk
3D Gaming Performance #1: Normal
3D Gaming Performance #2: CPU Scaling
3D Gaming Performance #3: Overclocking
Environmental Bump Mapping Tech Talk, Video Capture & Other Capabilities
Conclusion

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Matrox Marvel G400-TV

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3D Gaming Performance: Overclocking
(Note – System configuration (a)+(aa))

The core and memory speed are locked to each other in the Marvel, i.e. the core and memory have to be overclocked by the same ratio as the original 125/166 setting.

Using Entech Taiwan’s Powerstrip, I was able to overclock the evaluation board to core 150MHz/ memory 200MHz. The limitation appears to be the memory – at memory speed of 205MHz, trace 2-D corruption started to appear in 2-D, while at 210MHz total mayhem.

Quake 3 Arena retail version 1.11 – Demo1, Normal Settings

Quake 3 Arena retail version 1.11 – Demo2, Normal Settings

Quake 3 Arena retail version 1.11 – Demo1, Max Settings

Quake 3 Arena retail version 1.11 – Demo2, Max Settings

Expendable Demo – Max Settings

3D Mark 2000 – Normal Setting

3D Mark 2000 – Max Setting

3D Mark 2000 – Normal Setting

3D Mark 2000 – Max Setting

The conclusions from the “3D Gaming Performance: Benchmarks” section generally continue to apply, as the performance gap to persistent vision at the higher resolution and/or colour depth was too much to bridge.

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