Matrox Millennium G450

by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 5, 2000 3:04 AM EST

Test Notes

  • The Matrox Millennium G450 card would not work on a BX motherboard running at an overclocked 133MHz FSB setting. The system would not get further than the POST screen. For more information on AGP cards on a BX133 platform read our BX-133 Video Guide.

The Test

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s) Intel Pentium III 500E
Motherboard(s) AOpen AX6BCPro Gold
Memory 128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E Chips)
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB
Matrox Millennium G450 32MB

NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 32MB SDR (default clock 175/166)
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB - 6.00.010 Beta
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB - 6.00.010 Beta
Matrox Millennium G450 32MB - 6.03.026 Beta

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32MB SDR - Detonator3 6.17
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR - Detonator3 6.17

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 AnandTech.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3

Drivers OpenGL Performance - Quake III Arena
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  • bstct - Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - link

    Thanks for the excellent and helpful article.

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