PNY Quadro FX 2000 false advertising

[wilson]

On PNY's website, they claim the Quadro FX 2000 can do 3840x2400 with both heads, and can do 2048x1536 using dual-link DVI. Both claims are false. I just got the card today and downloaded their latest 42.42 driver. It would not drive my IBM T221 at 3840x2400. In addition, it would not drive my T210 at 2048x1536@60Hz using dual-link DVI. What's the deal?

[Solomon]

Hey Wilson,

Can you confirm what your clock and memory settings are? And what the ns rating is on the memory chips?

I'm not sure if http://www.entechtawain.com is capable of reading the Quadro FX yet with their Powerstrip.

Regards,
D. Solomon Jr.
*********.com

[wilson]

PowerStrip 3.30 Build 366 n/a for memory and 2.32MHz for engine clock

Just downloaded RivaTuner from guru3d. It's claiming 351.0 core clock and 601.7 memory clock. Does it make sense?

[Solomon]

Thanks Willson.

It's odd that your card is at 350MHz and the one Amazon International did was at 324MHz. Strange... Thanks for posting what you got.

The memory is even alot lower then what I thought it would be. The initial release was supposed to be 400/400 (800) yours is clocked at 350/300 (600). Can you read the spec code on your memory?

Regards,
D. Solomon Jr.
*********.com

[wilson]

Nah, the memory chips are all under heatsinks. It's possible that RivaTuner is not accurate. Any other program I should try?

[PreservedSwine]

Wilson, the new 3dMark03 reads video card core and memory speeds- give it whirl:)

[wilson]

I'll having some trouble downloading 3dmarks03. Will try again later.

[Nv40]

Originally posted by wilson
On PNY's website, they claim the Quadro FX 2000 can do 3840x2400 with both heads, and can do 2048x1536 using dual-link DVI. Both claims are false. I just got the card today and downloaded their latest 42.42 driver. It would not drive my IBM T221 at 3840x2400. In addition, it would not drive my T210 at 2048x1536@60Hz using dual-link DVI. What's the deal?


well ,i think you can get much better support at
PNY customer support..

not many here have quadro2000fx boards ..
and i really doubt any user here have a monitor that can
go beyond 2000x2000 insane resolutions ..

here at nvnews ,one user got a quadrofx2000 and its
clocked at 400/800 as default core/clocks..


also be sure that your display settings match your monitor
capabilities , at very high resolutions you cannot choose
beyond 41+ hertz..

http://www.monitoroutlet.com/342898.html

[wilson]

What's a good, reliable way to read the clock speed? Should I use RivaTuner and do the detect/reboot thing?

PNY support was real nice. The guy claimed he'll try to have a new driver built for my by Wednesday. We shall see....

[volt]

Can you add those to the registry?
(save as <filename.reg and double click)
This will add coolbits which will show the **** speeds (hopefullY)

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"CoolBits"=dword:00000003

[wilson]

Coolbits work. The temperature setting went away though. The core clock showed up as 300MHz, memory 600MHz. I adjusted them up to 400/800 and tested the setting. Seems to work fine.

Should I be complaining to PNY?

[Lezmaka]

in regular 2d stuff, the gffx will throttle to 300/600, then go back up to 500/1000 in 3d

I would assume its kinda the same thing for the quadro fx

[wilson]

Lezmaka, you might be right. Coolbits frequency page shows 2 settings: 2D (standard) and 3D (performance). 2D is 300/600 default, 3D is 400/800 default.

[wilson]

Originally posted by wilson
Coolbits work. The temperature setting went away though.

My bad. The temperature page went away because I'm using 42.68 instead of PNY's 42.42.

nVidia is boasting 3840x2400 support all over their site. It's getting me more upset.

[Evildeus]

Originally posted by wilson
My bad. The temperature page went away because I'm using 42.68 instead of PNY's 42.42.

nVidia is boasting 3840x2400 support all over their site. It's getting me more upset.
Don't you have a manual saying how to obtain this resolution? Your display can do it BTW?

[fastguy94416]

Looked like tile or scale mode @41 hz was all I could see for that res.

[wilson]

I have done 1920x2400x2 horiz span with Quadro4 900XGL and IBM 41.04. I have also done it with slight modification to stock nVidia 42.68, 42.30. Refresh is 20, 24 or 25 Hz.

If you can only do quad stripe, you might have to update the monitor firmware and select the right EDID.

[GXAlan]

What about 42.81? Isn't that the latest driver from PNY? The 42.42 was posted later, but it's only DX8. I hear that the 42.90 coming out "within a month" will be adding some resolutions that aren't available in the drivers right now.

[wilson]

I tried 42.86 from guru3d that's dated earlier than 42.68 but later than the 42.81 from PNY. I should probably give it a try. That's what HP used for Viewperf. Maybe that's the benchmark/PR special. Thanks for the suggestion.

[wilson]

Attached is a picture of the Quadro FX 2000 "retail box." It's a generic cardboard box with color-copied artwork partially glued to the top. It did come shrink-wrapped. Very professional :)

[Evildeus]

Did you try to send an email to PNY/Nvidia?

Otherwise, how do you find the card?

[wilson]

PNY support was very apologetic. He said he might be able to get me some new drivers by Wednesday since Monday is a holiday at nVidia.

The card itself feels faster than my old Geforce4 Ti 4600. 3Dmark was in the 3900 range cuz I have a slow 1.8GHz P4 machine. That's inline with what the ATI 9700 with similar config is getting. SPEC Viewperf is dramatically lower (like 5 to 10X) than HP's numbers. Hopefully it's just my resolution, CPU, and the driver. Fan is not loud during operation; it bursts to high speed at power-up or cold-boot and it does sound loud. I'm really looking forward to using the full 3840x2400 resolution. At that res, the Matrox G200MMS that came with the monitor was almost unusable; Geforce4 was a little sluggish.

[Evildeus]

Thx wilson, hope you will be able to use your card as it's supposed to.

[volt]

Originally posted by wilson
Attached is a picture of the Quadro FX 2000 "retail box." It's a generic cardboard box with color-copied artwork partially glued to the top. It did come shrink-wrapped. Very professional :)

What the hell is that box? You paid for this?
Looks like a dog chewed on this :)

[Evildeus]

Originally posted by volt
What the hell is that box? You paid for this?
Looks like a dog chewed on this :)
and from who? :confused: