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The NVIDIA hype machine...
Well, we all know about the famed (or infamous, your choice...) NVIDIA hype machine. Inflated specs, empty promises, and a big ego are just for starters. Well, it looks like they don't even need to blow their own horn anymore, figuratively speaking that is. Check out this quote from a ZDNET Anchordesk article about the GeFarce 256 and see if you can find the problem.
"This is a monster chip. It’s got 23 million processors, a 256-bit transform and lighting engine, support for the Cube Mapping Environment, a four-pixel rendering pipeline and 4x AGP support. All that gobbledy-gook adds up to a chip that should really start to make 3D games look almost as realistic as life itself." -- ZDNET Anchordesk
WOW!!! I wonder what die size they are using to get 23 million processors one one board! Matrox better have something good up their sleeve to top this one...
Here is a link to the article in case you're interested.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3951.html
Cheers!
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ABIT BH-6, Celeron 300A @450, 128MB RAM, IBM Deskstar 10GXP, Matrox Millenium G200 16MB, Sound Blaster Live!, D-LINK 10/100 Ethernet, US Robotics 56K modem, Adaptec 2940UW, Plextor 32X CDROM, Plextor 4X/12X CD-R, SCSI Zip Drive, Motorola Cybersurfr Cable Modem
"This is a monster chip. It’s got 23 million processors, a 256-bit transform and lighting engine, support for the Cube Mapping Environment, a four-pixel rendering pipeline and 4x AGP support. All that gobbledy-gook adds up to a chip that should really start to make 3D games look almost as realistic as life itself." -- ZDNET Anchordesk
WOW!!! I wonder what die size they are using to get 23 million processors one one board! Matrox better have something good up their sleeve to top this one...
Here is a link to the article in case you're interested.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3951.html
Cheers!
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ABIT BH-6, Celeron 300A @450, 128MB RAM, IBM Deskstar 10GXP, Matrox Millenium G200 16MB, Sound Blaster Live!, D-LINK 10/100 Ethernet, US Robotics 56K modem, Adaptec 2940UW, Plextor 32X CDROM, Plextor 4X/12X CD-R, SCSI Zip Drive, Motorola Cybersurfr Cable Modem