Another G800 mention

[Himself]

From Ace's hardware:

Matrox representatives have assured us once again that Matrox will offer a real gamers card ("G800") in Q1 of 2000. While there are many indications that Matrox might not be able to offer a faster card than the NV20, we hope for a card with a good price/performance ratio as we do not really need anymore 500$ videocards on the market...

[Maggi]

hmmm ... Q1 of 2000 ... looks like we missed something for the last couple of months ...

Thanx for heads-up though !!!



Cheers,
Maggi

[AJ]

Q1 calendar or fiscal?

I also wonder if it will just be announced in Q1 and not available till the summer. I do recall some website saying that Matrox would announce a high performance card in March of 2000 (at some conference, is the GDC in March?).


I'm about to buy a NV card (rats) - was going to get a v5 (oops! not anymore), can't go with the radeon because it doesn't play well with w2k or via chipsets, I have both. Now I have hope that I will have a Matrox card back in my system again someday

-AJ

[dZeus]

I also recall someone posting that Matrox wasn't listed as GDC participants... someone else knows more about this?

[DRED]

Hey Aj I don't know about the win2k issues goto rage3d forums to learn about that but I can tell you that my Radeon 32 meg DDR worked great on my Tyan Trinity 400 (VIA)board. I have the radeon in an Asus 815 board now and there is really no performance difference that I can tell. I can also tell you I never had one hiccup but I was using win9x.

And your are right about Elsa 2d I have a erazor x (sdr) and I have tried a hercules gts and can tell you 2d on the hercules card much worse than elsa card.

Personally I recommend you go with the radeon good speed and the 2d and image quality beats any geforce card.

[This message has been edited by DRED (edited 19 December 2000).]

[AJ]

DRED,

Thanks, but it's too late! I did buy the Elsa from an online store that has no restocking fees till after Jan 31 2001, so if I don't like it, it goes back and then I'll try the Radeon.

I have noticed that benchmarks with the latest drivers are roughtly equal between win98 and w2k. But considering the headaches I've had with my P3V4X, W2K, G400, V2 and sblive - I wanted to minimize my likelyhood of having problems. ATI is doing a complete rewrite of their drivers - that could be very good, or very bad. I prefer to wait and see.

Thanks again though,
-AJ

I can't wait to see what the "G800" will be, knowing matrox, even if it's not the performance king, it will have some cool features.

[rylan]

Don't hold your breath. If its 'announced', it will be months before you can get one.. remember the G400MAX supply problems?

[Wulfman]

why is everybody talking about 2000????

mfg
wulfman