I am NOT under NDA......

[Damien]

MATROX are not announcing a new card on the 14th. They are announcing a chipset.

[xortam]

Originally posted by Damien
MATROX are not announcing a new card on the 14th. They are announcing a chipset.

The MURCers don't care. Look how excited everbody got over an announcement of an announcement (the Matrox home page flash). The card(s) will follow soon enough after the 14th. The question is, are you ready for the P?

[Greebe]

Damien, how do you know that they're not announcing both chip and card?

[R.Carter]

Originally posted by Greebe
There is no relation between the two

I know. My thinking was that perhaps 3DLabs is expecting their chipset to target the same market segments as the as yet unannounced Matrox product.

Or maybe there were other reasons why 3DLabs pushed up their announcement.

I don't expect Nvidia next generation chip to be announced until thte end of this year. By then 3DLab should be shipping product

Hopefully Matrox will be as well.

[R.Carter]

Originally posted by Greebe
Damien, how do you know that they're not announcing both chip and card?

Yeah. You can almost guarantee that Matrox will announce a chipset as well as serveral actual implementations of it (i.e. cards) that you'll be able to buy at some point.

[ratboy]

Anything calling it a G1000 is a hoax.

Haig said on the Matrox forums 'It has no G or numbers in the name, it's just one word'

[xortam]

Haig posted at http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For.../001109-4.html :

All of our products are produced by us along with us developing the chips. I think we are 1 of the few remaining chip makers that actually make our own products as well.
That said, we've allways released our chip spec first and a few weeks later, we announce our product spec.

(Thanks to Voyager3D for digging that up).

[ratboy]

Just go to the matrox forums and read the thread titled 'G1000 Maxxx continued'

Haig is hinting his arse off. Just look for his name as the rest is extraneous.

[xortam]

Haig also said in that thread:

so how many products will be announced, or just one ?
None. We're only announcing the chip spec.

[Dr Mordrid]

As far as 3DLabs goes their products have pretty much been single purposed: 3D modeling & CAD using OpenGL.

I have one of their Oxygen GVX1 Procards and it's very good for this. Problem is it's support for gaming is not what you would find in cards like the G-Force etc.

To be sure this will change with their acquisition by Creative, but neither has that much experience with the current features expected on gaming cards.

As such I wouldn't expect much in the way of drivers from them for the P10 chip for a while, especially if Creatives driver team has anything to do with them

Dr. Mordrid

[SteveC]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
As far as 3DLabs goes their products are mainly geared towards 3D modeling & CAD. To be sure this will change with their acquisition by Creative, but neither has that much experience with the current features expected on gaming cards.

As such I wouldn't expect much in the way of drivers from them for the P10 chip for a while, especially if Creatives driver team has anything to do with them

Dr. Mordrid

mmmm - paired with a SB Live! in a Via mainboard

[Dr Mordrid]

Oh, yeah....an SBLive/Audigy on a standard VIA chipset. Great combo

HOWEVER....I cannot knock the KT333 chipset in this thing. It's FAST.

The few problems I'm experiencing seem to be BIOS related and I have an update to try so.....

Dr. Mordrid

[Vic]

""This time around guy you will not feel the same as above... besides next Tuesday isn't that far off ""



Yes but the two years wait before the drivers are stable IS!!

[Ant]

They got professional help this time

Originally posted by Vic
""This time around guy you will not feel the same as above... besides next Tuesday isn't that far off ""



Yes but the two years wait before the drivers are stable IS!!

[GNEP]

SGI?
edit: I mean for the OpenGL bit of course

gnep