SCOOP!! Is this the new G550? PICS!!!

[Jorden]

Say Ingram, how many times do you keep posting those pictures in this thread? It's a real treat to download them on a modem, you know?

Jord.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Very sorry, I didn't think about that.

[dZeus]

nice edit rubank now the vga connectors look what they should look like

[rubank]

Guys,
I´m glad you appreciate my effort.

Jon P, how can you say my pics look like yours, can´t you see the difference?

Of course there may be some artefacts in the pics, remember this is obviously a preproduction board

rubank

[This message has been edited by rubank (edited 14 April 2001).]

[Mad Maxtrox]

Rubank,

If you can spend so much take making and improving fake pics, how about making the board for real. Give a good name, just not the Tri-headed condor, it would make for a ugly picture on the box. Get Tempest to do the box and Tsi to do the website, just make sure it spells everything right

I am sure your fake will be a HIT with all the technologically lazy website guys.

P.S. Just get it all done before the middle on June so you don't have any competition from daddy

[frankymail]

Good to see there's still some hope and humor in here

About the pic:
- The VGA outputs are too close to each other... you wouldn't be able to plug a monitor on all three of those things at the same time.
- The layout of the board is too packed for a new high-end board for Matrox; if you look at the G200 and the G400, you'll see what I mean.
- The word "Matrox" is nowhere to be found on the board...
- And finally, you'll notice you've used 64-bits DDR memory, while the TCFKAG800NKAG550 is supposed to have 128-bits DDR memory...

Anyway, you managed to put a smile of expectation on our face... Thanks

Francis,



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[ALBPM]

That's definitly a fake..... I don't see the Render Nude... Whoops!!!! I mean the Matrox Skinning Processor on the board

Paul

[dZeus]

Francis, wouldn't using twice the amount of chips and traces as on the G450 mean it has a 128bit memory bus?

but I agree on that you just can't possibly fit 3 usefull VGA connectors on one board. The plugs you have to plug into them are a bit wider than the connnector, and there's just not enough room

[rubank]

Paul,
I think you have to take another look

[This message has been edited by rubank (edited 14 April 2001).]

[William Gates III]

I can´t understand the ravings, everything seems to be in place.

Will they make it as a PCI card also, so I can have six monitors?

Bill

[frankymail]

The chips on the pictures are the same than the chips on the G450... 64 Bits... But using twice the number of chips with twice the number of traces would be a dual-channel 64-bits memory bus; the same through-put (yet a little more effective) than a normal single-channel 128-bits bus... but would be slightly more expensive...

Francis,

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[dZeus]

I thought that 16 bits memory chips were used on the G450, 4 chips making 64-bit. And 8 chips would make 128 bit ?

[William Gates III]

Gentlemen,

whether 128 bit mem bandwidth or not is in the layout of the graphics processor, not the memory chips.

64 bit DDR gives the same b/w as 128 SDRAM, in theory, at considerably lower production cost for the graphics processor, due to its less complicated nature.
That´s why Matrox and others opted for 64 bit mem b/w in the first place.

Bill

P.S. I just realized the Matrox skinning® chip has 16 legs: does that mean the render nude feature is limited to 8 nudes per frame or per application? D.S.

[This message has been edited by William Gates III (edited 15 April 2001).]

[Wombat]

Sorry Gates,
But 64-bit requires half of the pins/traces as 128-bit RAM. That's part of the cost savings. The memory will definitely be different.

[William Gates III]

I won´t argue that, Wombat.
The G450 uses 16 bit modules (HY5DV651622-*), but how can you tell from these pictures what part number the memchips have here? I´m sure I can´t, and I know no other way to tell the one from the other.

Bill