24 Hours 'Til It Comes!

[Gurm]

24 Hours, huzzah huzzah, until my Hercules Prophet 4500 arrives.

64MB of Kyro2 goodness, all for ME.

Hehe.

Of course, after playing with it, I'll have to decide which machine gets the G400. Hmm...

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[DuRaNgO]

Congrats! Where'd you order from and at what cost?
jim

[omegaRED]

Congrats, Gurm. But dont look down on us poor G400 users

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Seth, are you ok ?
I`m peachy, Kate. The world is my oyster.

[Gurm]

Direct from Guillemot, at a price of $149.

Includes Exile (Myst 3).

Shipping was $9 - it would have been $17 for overnight, but they couldn't have guaranteed it overnight anyway, so they gave me two-day for $9. Not bad.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[xortam]

We expect to see a full review posted on the front page.

[Joel]

And we want to see some screenshots too.

Joel

[MK]

Hey Gurm,

would you mind to report about the Kyro`s 2D quality ? I´m really interested how big the difference is between the G400 and the Hercules at 1024 x 768 & 100Hz !

Thanxs

MK



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Celeron II 876 MHz + Golden Orb
256 MB PC133 Crucial 7E (CAS2)
G400 16MB @ PD 6.10 + TGL
20 GB IBM on HPT U-ATA100 RAID
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400

[Gurm]

Don't fear, everyone!

The first thing I'll be doing is commenting on 2D and driver stability, leading up to a full report.

I've only got access to a limited number of recent games, so don't expect anything astonishing. nVMark2001, Quake3, UT (Maybe), B&W, and... err... I'm sure I can scare up some other games.

I'll also comment on 3DSMax/Maya capability as well as a bunch of other stuff.

I'm just hoping the drivers aren't as bad out-of-box as the LAST Hercules card I bought (the Game Theater XP).

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Nuno]

I also ordered a Herc 4500, I´m waiting for it.
I was also thinking doing a small review just for G400 users who are considering a Kyro II, while we´re expecting Ralph
Mainly win2k issues.

They told me it should be here until the end of the week, but I highly doubt it...

Gee, to be honest I miss my G400 already

[Novdid]

Six days left for me. In Sweden we get our stuff a bit later than you in the states.

[Nuno]

I find very interesting that many Matrox users turned out to KyroII Everything but Nvidia video cards, right?

[az]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Jorden:
okay, anyone here who can explain to me why those Geforces need all those double names?

Hercules Prophet Geforce 2 MX
ASUS V7700 Geforce2 GTS 32 Meg DDR
Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro2)

It's as if they want to fill the whole box with the name only
Who cares what name it has, as long as it works?

Jord.</font>

Yeah, certainly worse than &quot;Matrox Millennium G400 MAX DH&quot;

AZ

[Gurm]

Nuno,

I think the reason that we're turning to the KyroII is that, according to all the previews, it fulfills our basic spoilt-by-matrox needs. To wit:

1. Roughly GeForce2/Radeon speeds.
2. Good Win2k compatibility.
3. Decent 2D image quality.

The Radeon fulfills 1 & 3, the GeFarce fulfills 1 & 2. The KyroII seems to (according to everything we've heard) fulfill all 3. And is the only card currently on the market to do so.

- Gurm

P.S. I got mine! I'll be posting in a separate thread entitled IT'S HERE!

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Jorden]

okay, anyone here who can explain to me why those Geforces need all those double names?

Hercules Prophet Geforce 2 MX
ASUS V7700 Geforce2 GTS 32 Meg DDR
Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro2)

It's as if they want to fill the whole box with the name only
Who cares what name it has, as long as it works?

Jord.