G800 or whatever

[Barbarella]

hello,

new : read this about radeon power
http://www.aceshardware.com/#N15000330

[Arsa]

Well... one guy asked - would you recomend getting a Ferrari?
Now, question: would you drive it to work? ...
Another question: would you ask for a raise and tell that you need it to get a Ferrari?

So, why would I get GeForce 2 (3) in my office computer?
On the other hand, most office people are satisfied by i810 or i815 ...
So we are talking about somebody who needs higher than ordinary functions. Like dualhead, high resolutions and quality (staring at monitor all the day doesn't do you any good). Dont forget other functions, that we still don't know about ;-)

But office computers are not built by in-company personel most of the time... and here we are in computermaker relations... (say Dell still doesn't make Athlon computers)

The point? The point is that if office computers came even with Millenium, it still would be better that i810. We are in the area where progress is not needed (many office supplies are like that ;-).

Question? Suggest some other functions (other thnt ones in G4x0) that are needed in the office. Notice, that I am not talking about 3D at all... I work with 2D graphics, edit tons of java, asp and c code and browse all that stuff after that. So I need something 3D for office too. Can't think of many things though (since VRML is almost dead ;-)

[cerb]

Out of curiousity after Himself's post, I've adjusted my settings to 1920x1440 on my Millenium G400 DH and CTX VL950T. My conclusions are:

; semicoloon good
: colon good
" quote good
' single quote good
, comma good
. period good
~ tilde average
| pipe good
\ backslash good
/ slash good
# number good
@ at good
% percent average to good

Would have tried 2048x1536 but that would have been too small for my monitor (need a 21" at least for that one, I'd say. :-)

btw, playing with my drivers I discovered these monitors can do 1280x960 at 97Hz! Not bad for a bargain-basement 19" monitor about 12 months old. :-)

Anyway, time to go back to a res that allows me 85Hz at least. :-P

Cerb

[Maggi]

I'm writing this on an Eye-Q 750 21" monitor @ 2048x1536x32bpp @ 66Hz (G400 DH Vanilla) and here's the rating

; semicoloon very good
: colon very good
" quote good
' single quote very good
, comma very good
. period very good
~ tilde good
| pipe very good
\ backslash very good
/ slash very good
# number very good
@ at very good
% percent average to good



Of course this heavily depends on which font you are actually using, but as long as you stick with standard fonts and your monitor is good enough, there is a big difference between Matrox and the competition.

Cheers,
Maggi

PS: gotta switchback now to 2048x1024x32bpp @ 100/75Hz DH mode ...

[Himself]

Just so you know, I have a 17" monitor, not 19" or 21", 1280x1024 is pushing it, let alone 1600x1200.

[Maggi]

np, Himself ...

I just had to throw it into the ring.

[Heiney]

I don't know guys, I hope 1.8GPixels/sec is correct. That would be a nice little boost over my G400 :P

And dual chip would compete well with NV20.

If these rumors are true, Matrox has their ass covered. (OpenGL? )



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[Pertti]

Himself,

1280x1024 is my default resolution for 15" ones

[WMTJ]

Heiney

Thoses rumors have to be to good to be true!
Come on! 1.8 Gpixel on one chip........from Matrox!Dual chip 3.6Gpixel.....from Matrox!!
How good a tile based renderer could they possibly have. If there is any validity to these pipe dreams you must throw embedded memory right on in there too. Yea right all this from Matrox!! If it wern't for Microsoft I doubt we'd be seeing anything near half the proposed performance of the X-Box in the upcomming NV20!

I'd like to be jaw drop shocked also when Matrox introduces G whatever I just doubt it'll that type of suprise.

WMTJ

[This message has been edited by WMTJ (edited 13 October 2000).]

[Greebe]

WMTJ, you can't see the forest from the trees mon. Please read other posts here concerning nVidia, ok

This is not a flame, please don't take it as such.

Cheers

[Himself]

Pertti,

You're mad.

[Pertti]

Himself,

I'm just an average 36year old Finnish computer junkie that has Matrox cards in every system for a reason, and those 15"ers just don't go any higher

[swr]

Why is 1280x1024 so popular? Don't you people notice the non-square pixels? Or are you buying monitors built to something other than a 4:3 aspect ratio?</P>

1280x960 for me. No tall skinny images, thank you.</P>

[Sisyfos]

Uhm, you mean short fat images?

[Arsa]

It's standart resoultion...
Very nice on my 19'