[jhb] Re: Superb Matrox Service
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:38:18 +0100
On my mobo the slots are at the opposite end of the case to the drive rack.
No problem.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 16 May 2007 07:54
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Superb Matrox Service
Short of leaving the whole asembly job to thers, your way is probably
the easiest. It leaves you able to fit the GTX in before locating the
hard drives. The only way I've been able to fit in my displaced SATA is
by sawing an old mounting box in half, screwing the SATA into it then
placing the box plus SATA an the bottom of the case. At least it can't
fall anywhere and its printed circuits are protected. I assume future
cases will be deeper.
How a pair can be installed, in SLI, defeats me!
I did an FS9 flight with it, last night, before the Matrox fix arrived.
Over AutoGen infested Gloucestershire, with the slider turned up, and
with ASv6 heavy clouds and haze, I was seeing 100 fps. More impressive
was the absence of blurries under those conditions.
Hope the rest of your bits arrive today.
Gerry Winskill
bones wrote:
>You can see why I've had Matrox cards since my first PC. I really
>regret them dropping out of the games market and this 8800 is going to
>be somewhat of an eye opener to me.
>
>Mine also arrived today along with the mobo but the rest of the kit is
>still on its way. Without a case, memory and hard drives the 8800 will
>have to sit in its box for now. Having mentioned the size of it I
>thought I wouldn't be surprised when I opened the box but it's a
>staggering beast of a card. What I may notice the most is the jump from
>128Mb of graphics memory to 768Mb <g>..
>
>bones
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
>Sent: 15 May 2007 23:05
>To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [jhb] Superb Matrox Service
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>
>It's been a long day!
>
>The new 8800GTX arrived today. It's a monster and I could only get it
>into the case by removing one of the SATA drives, then bodging up a new
>way of locating it, with the card having invaded its space.
>
>Next came the trauma of new drivers.
>
>After that the Desk Top insisted on going to a monitor it didn't
>oughter.
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>Eventually it all seemed to be running, with three THTG monitors plus
>the other two.
>
> From then on it went seriously downhill. Both FS9 and FSX, when booted
>up, brought the system to its knees. It was almost impossible to move
>the mouse cursor, with each move followed by a two second pause. With
>FS9 running I was getting 0.6 fps! If I took FS off screen it was OK
>again.
>
>Eventually I narrowed it down, without finding a solution. If I ran
>with THTG set at 1280 x 1024, so just one screen, all was normal. As
>soon as I corrected it to the usual 3840 x 1024 it ground to a halt. In
>the case of FS9 i could get it to work by reducing the resolution, then
>increasing it again. With FSX this had no effect.
>
>Eventually, having tried several ideas suggested by Tom, I emailed
>Matrox; getting in early for tomorrow. This was about 2100. Within a
>couple of minutes I had a reply suggesting it might be the 8800
>drivers. A few minutes later they came back with another idea. It was
>one most of us have used but it didn't occur to me today, 'cos I was
>trying to be logical! They suggested the old dodge; re name FS9.cfg and
>re boot FS9. That did the trick. Naturally, it then became obvious.....
>Both FS9 and FSX had picked up the new Device and added it to the .cfg.
>It's just a pity Microsoft have never twigged that if you change cards
>the .cfg just builds up a collection of devices, which the programme
>can't cope with.
>
>So. it's up and running. But only because of the unbelievable Matrox
>backup. Particularly since they have officially got out of games and
>home computing, to concentrate on the business world. Because the
>traders work round the clock, Matrox run a 24 hour technical backup
>service. Being the blokes they are, whenever I've put in a non business
>query, they've come back within minutes. You can't normally buy service
>like that. It almost takes me out of GOM mode......
>
>Gerry Winskill
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