No G400 MAX for the UK

[UberWarrior]

Matrox have stopped shipping it overhere due to heat problems or something, so if you do manage to get one it will be imported.

UberWarrior

[Chris Blake]

What, only the ones made for the UK overheat? That seems a little unlikely.

My Max was made in Ireland and it doesn't overheat. Least it hasn't yet, and I've had it 3 months!




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Chris Blake

Epox MVP3G5, K6III450, 192Mb RAM, G400Max DH, SBLive! Value and whole load of other stuff

[SteveC]

Nah, I doubt that very much - after all, the weather here's so bad, it almost doesn't need the fan!

Where did you hear this info?

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Cheers,
Steve

"The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million-to-one", he said.

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[Haig]

There is no stop shipment of the Max cards.

Haig

[UberWarrior]

ok, phone dabs direct, scan and insight and they will tell you that matrox has recalled all of the Max`s in the uk because of problems due to heat, some thing to do with the PAL interface.
I called all 3 of these companys wanting to buy a MAX today and they all gave me the same story.

Im only letting you know what i have been told off 3 diffrent companys.


UberWarrior

[Haig]

Hi Uber,

Well, all I can tell you is that I have no idea why they are saying this.

Haig

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[Chris Blake]

Don't listen to a word Insight tell you! A friend of mine phoned them asking about the availability of the Max two weeks after I got mine. Insight told him that they'd never had any and that they weren't getting any. Guess what? I got my Max from Insight!

Whilst I was waiting for my Max Insight told me that they would be delivered in November (this was back in June); that they’d been recalled (again June); and that they simply didn’t know when I’d get my card (two days before I received it. This being week after I got back from Cornwall - solar eclipse week 11th August)

You can't expect a company based in Worksop to know what they're on about.

(Guess who lives near Worksop.)


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[Ant]

Hey I'm not too far from Worksop me sen

[Kronos]

I've got a UK spec card, and I can tell you that it definately does not overheat! In fact, it's the coolest card I've ever had, running at a much lower temperature that either a Voodoo 3 or TNT 2 Ultra

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Sometimes, just sometimes, the things I say make sense!

[Smiff]

Just bend, er head, over to the Matrox Online store and get shafted like the rest of us!

25% VAT!!!!!!
what planet are these poeple on??

[DentyCracker]

Multiwave were spreading those lies back in September when I was waiting for a Max I had orderd from them for a client. (I ordered it in June and cancelled shortly after they lied to me) I contacted Matrox and they assured me that no such thing had occurred. I think those lies are a way for those companies who feel miffed at M to get back at them

[Javert]

My Max was made in Ireland and it doesn't overheat too. It's very cool and cool!!!
Even It was overclocked.

[Chris Blake]

Ant:

Near to Worksop eh?

Aye-up me duck. Greetings from the town with the bendy spire.

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Chris Blake

Epox MVP3G5, K6III450, 192Mb RAM, G400Max DH, SBLive! Value and whole load of other stuff

[TheMorg]

Insight's warehouse/shop is right next to the Sainsbury's supermarket in Worksop. Let's just say tha's more likely to get a tin o' soup delivered than sumut tha's ordered.

Anyway, I don't see how our UK spec cards could overheat when they are assembled in Ireland and use the Beamish Red Liquid Cooling System.

Strange that the story seems to have come from three competing companies though.