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[az]

Thanks Greebe

SCNR seems to be used after jokes and/or flames.. can't really tell though, don't see it that often

AZ

[Liquid Snake]

Well, CEBIT was a little too far for me!

[Pace]

WaR-ped: Where's the link between CAD and games? Basically your asking for a fantastic all rounder? Um...G400 sounds like that card Now G450/550 too.

And SMP support? I'll let the BBz take that one...

And question 5...EH?!

rubank: Read the Electic interview.

Go Topha and az

P.

[WaR-ped]

Pace, yer a genius. All I want is a G400MAX with its performance kicked up a few notches. thats not too much to ask, is it? I figured its a valid question since the raw performance of the g450 and g550 has not been greatly increased over the g400 series.

SMP support is very important i think. especially since the AMD athlon can be set up for dual CPU operation now."BB"?!? what is that?

question 5 was asked because depending on what they answer will show if they kinda threw the g550 together to actually have something on the market that is "new" , or that the past two years, their video card department has been working on the g550 plan. maybe they scraped some ideas. i was just curious.

[This message has been edited by WaR-ped (edited 24 June 2001).]

[GehRehmee]

How about:
Where did the idea that matrox's fans started the G800 rumors get started?

[dZeus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">SMP support is very important i think. especially since the AMD athlon can be set up for dual CPU operation now."BB"?!? what is that?</font>

What do you mean, SMP support???? I thought the Matrox cards already ran fine in SMP systems.... oooohhh you're talking about multi-threaded drivers.... well, that IS almost completely useless for the current Matrox cards. Multi-threaded drivers would only help on systems that don't have enough horsepower to calculate the data for the videocard itself. For the G400 that was around 600 - 800Mhz... since the average CPU sold today is faster than that (I believe), this feature wouldn't help a bit.

Correct me if I'm wrong

[Topha]

hey dzeus, thats why we want smp support in a card thats faster than the g400max and still a matrox card (like the g800 )

[dZeus]

I don't think for any wellbalanced card that smp support is worth the extra development time. Only if a card is badly designed and need a VERY fast CPU to reach the max fillrate it is usefull (unless the card has an enormous fillrate )

[Pace]

Yea, but question 5, they certainly planned to make another card, but I doubt they had HeadCasting planned for the G550, to be pin compat with 450 etcetc.

All they will really plan is a rough roadmap, and the only answer they'll give is "We are always looking at producing newer, more advanced cards..."

P.

[rubank]

Pce,

I´ve read the Electic interview,

but there´s nothing on the price on bananas...

rubank

[chucky2]

I second the "Is this all that you've been doing for the past 2 years?!"

I'm sorry, but if "this (the G550)" is it, then M is going to have really dug a hole for itself in every circle except, and in a lot of cases including, the business market.

M, please listen: When Anand, Tom, and the others start posting reviews of the G550, and it sucks compared to a Geforce2 DDR, you better start dropping hard information on the G800 or G550MAX that you better be working on. Or whatever supporters you've had up until now will LEAVE YOU. Why stay with a product that lets you watch a game in perfect clarity and detail, but shows it at slideshow pace? Most of us here have nice monitors and love image quality. But the vast majority of users have 15"-17" monitors and run at 800x600 or maybe 1024x768. Let me be the first to tell you: A Geforce2 at that resolution displays anything just fine, all the while giving fast framerates. Same for ATI, and the Kyro II stuff. Hell, even 3dfx (which is out of business by the way) still does it. If Headcasting is all M has, then they should just go back to producing G400 cards, as that is all most business users will ever need. Please M, Please, give us some real hope that all your engineers have not been using the RSN feature in Tomb Raider for the past 2 years and have nothing else but Headcasting to show for it.

Last EDIT, I promise.

[This message has been edited by chucky2 (edited 26 June 2001).]

[Greebe]

Your last edit should have been a "delete"

[Joel]

Yeah and he should have taken it over to Matrox's own forums. There's not much that we can do here about it anyway.

This is a user's support site that's independent of Matrox.

Joel

[DirtFarmer]

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Reality Sucks. (as witnessed by the latest Matrox video card press release)

--
Alan

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