This needs testing!
"This all reminds me when i took the windows vista sticker thingy off my old laptop, and on my washing machine as a joke. A few days later said washing machine stopped working. I still think this cannot be a coincidence."
Let me also suggest you search on MURC. You can find out just about anything about a Matrox card in there.
http://www.murc.ws/forumdisplay.php?10-Matrox … post&order=desc
wrote:I think adding RAM reduces memory clock speed. That would be undesirable. 😀
From what I've heard/read adding memory keeps the clock/memory clock at 84/112 which is default for most cards, so overclocking won't work, but there wouldn't be a performance drop. But there are stock G200's out there that have been clocked higher and I'm not sure what happens when memory is added to those.
The info is in the so-called pins that they used to configure the BIOS. You are right that typically the clock isn't reduced. I saw one G200 that did however, but it also runs slightly higher memory clocks normally than the others for some reason. With memory expansion, it went down to a clock typical for the other cards.
This old site has a collection of BIOS pin data among other things. See the BIOS section.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040110103309/ht … .pl/gbm/matrox/
One can also overclock cards by flashing modified pin data.
Previous discussions on this:
Matrox Millenium G200A memory upgrade?
Matrox G200 PCI 8MB video card, quick test
"This all reminds me when i took the windows vista sticker thingy off my old laptop, and on my washing machine as a joke. A few days later said washing machine stopped working. I still think this cannot be a coincidence."
