Ummm...Cebit news????

[Liquid Snake]

Come on! You should've threatened them with ALL YOUR G800 ARE BELONG TO US!!!1 That might've gotten something out of him

[The Rock]

Aces Hardware has a bit from Cebit, but not much:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">What I can tell you, however, is that ATI is very determined to compete with NVIDIA in the high-end market. Their next generation Radeon chip seems to be have every feature the Geforce 3 has and more. ATI also believes that their Hyper Z technology has a lot of room for improvement. You probably already know that the Radeon II will not be launched next month, but some of our industry sources say that ATI will launch a Radeon running at higher clockrates very soon.

Matrox has not given up on the gamers market either, but, unfortunately, that is all we can say for now. Stay tuned for more. </font>

And for the person in here who said the Win2k drivers for the Radeon suck, don't believe everything you read. ATI's driver team has nearly doubled since they bought ArtX, and the drivers have VASTLY improved in quality. Also, they release updated SUPPORTED NON BETA drivers a lot more frequently now. I know 3 or 4 people who run them in Win2k and the drivers ROCK. Unless 80-90fps in 1024x768x32bit color in Quake 3 isn't enough for you. My 64meg VIVO arrives tomorrow, and I'll be kissing this crappy Geforce 2 BUH-BYE.

Bart

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Just a FYI kinda thang.

As far as Radeon Win2k support is concerned....this will shows you what you can expect when going from Win98 to Win2000 using ATI's awesome drivers:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422

Rune: 18% drop in FPS
Expendable: 46% drop in FPS
MDK2: 9% drop in FPS
Alice: 0% drop in FPS
Quake3: 0% drop in FPS
Serious Same: Failed
Unreal Tournament: 46% drop in FPS
Mercedes Benz: 38% drop in FPS

"We also managed to prove that ATI has some very serious issues that need to be tended to if they are to compete with NVIDIA going forward. Windows 2000 is as much a power user's OS as it is a corporate OS and ATI's drivers under Windows 2000 are simply unacceptable for any gamer to tolerate. They have definitely been getting better but they are still leaps behind NVIDIA."

If you thought those numbers were brutal, take a look at these pathetic numbers:

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardwar..._kyro2/8.shtml

Evolva:
Win98: 77 FPS
Win2k: 37 FPS

WinBench2000
Win98: 91
Win2k: 24

These are pretty damn recent articles...I'm not pulling anything from 6 months ago. The oldest article is about 4 weeks old....the other is about 10 days old.

Anybody who tells you that ATI's Windows2000 support is 'there' is really telling you half the story.

[Peter Aragon]

Hi all

I was at CeBIT yesterday, got the pen, but miss Marvell didn't like me, she didn't throw the T-Shirt or the wallet
Damn bad weather on the way back, snow and 170kmh on the freeway don't go together quite well...

I met Haig, he just came in from the airport. He's a bit smaller as I expected...
The only thing I will say is that I now am even more determined to be a bit more patient, hehehe


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Peter Aragon
Matrox G450 DDR 16MB, Iiyama VisionMaster Pro 400, Asus CUSL2-C, Pentium III 1GHz + Golden Orb, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 40GB, 256MB, SBLive Platinum 5.1, Hauppauge TV-card, Plextor 12/10/32A burner, Pioneer 16x DVD, 3COM 905C Networkcard.

[This message has been edited by Peter Aragon (edited 26 March 2001).]

[Heed]

"I met Haig, he just came in from the airport. He's a bit smaller as I expected..."

Man, that made me laugh. Sorry Haig, no offence intended

[Maggi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Heed:
"I met Haig, he just came in from the airport. He's a bit smaller as I expected..."
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I met him too and found out he's a greater person than anybody could imagine ...

[Ant]

That he most certainly is, but he is also short

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Maggi:
I met him too and found out he's a greater person than anybody could imagine ...

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[SteveC]

OK, you want photos? Here's one or two (or three) of the Matrox Booth showing Matrox' Booth babes!


Here you can see the Matrox booth glowing


Matrox' Miss Millennium and Miss Marvel


Matrox' onstage actors getting pretty raunchy! (Honest!)


Another of Matrox' booth babes


Haig in his full glory! (Just after a 7hour flight + 3 hours on the train)

Now onto the after show drinking session!


[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 26 March 2001).]

[SteveC]

Maggi, Haig, Me and Hellmut (Notice my crouching slightly to make Haig look taller!
)


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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

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[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 27 March 2001).]

[Peter Aragon]

Did you know that they have internet access on the computers there

[Paddy]

Looks like you had a good time! Wish i could have gone....

[SteveC]

That's the point!

Anyway, all the matrox guys are too busy to be browsing the murc whilst there...

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Topha]

wow, yall are way older than i thought

[Heed]

Great pics Steve. I think that last one should have the caption: "I'm not as think as you drunk I am".

Maggi: I hope you didn't take my comment the wrong way-- it was just the way that the sentnce reads coupled with the idea of someone's first impressions that gave me the laugh-- it wasn't meant to demean Haig in the least.

Heed.

[ALBPM]

Thanks for the pics Steve