Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 3, 2000 4:02 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
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 |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel
Pentium III 733 provided by Memman |
AMD
Athlon 800 AMD Athlon 500 |
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Motherboard(s) |
Gigabyte
GA-6CX
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Gigabyte
GA-7IX
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Memory |
128MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM provided by Mushkin |
128MB
PC133 Corsair SDRAM
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Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66 |
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CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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Video Card(s) |
Gigabyte GA-MG400 16MB (default clock - 125/166) Matrox
Millennium G400 16MB DualHead (default clock - 125/166) NVIDIA
RIVA TNT2 32MB (default clock - 125/150) |
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Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows 98 SE |
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Video Drivers |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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Gaming |
GT
Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem |
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