Let's give Matrox some feedback not giving Ant a Parhelia!

[xortam]

Working drivers.

[Jon P. Inghram]

A beta testing agreement so he'll be forced to not say anything about any Matrox video card ever again?

[Reckless]

Originally posted by R0M
Guys,

Calm down, Ant is getting a board and something special, you can stop being angry now

Regards,

Excellent ROM That'll hopefully be something he'll be able to tell us about but whatever it is, well done Matrox and good luck Ant.

[KvHagedorn]

Something special? Ha.. Lorne should send Ant a booth babe for all that he's done for Matrox over the years. In fact, Ant's administration of this site should serve as a clear message to all big corporations who feel tempted to abuse their power: honesty and evenhandedness will get you more customers and more popularity than any number of "dirty tricks" (like we see from companies who try to rule the world, like Microsoft, Intel, or now, nVidia.) I'm glad to hear the powers at M have come to their senses. Ant deserves it. (If I were Lorne, I would send Ant a nice fat server and his own T3 line to use at his discretion.. no strings attached.)

[Reckless]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
I'm glad to hear the powers at M have come to their senses. Ant deserves it.

Don't be so sure that a few small voices here had anything to do with it?! MAYBE it did help or speed the process up a bit?! Whatever, he's soon going to be performing one of the most difficult tasks yet - reviewing a card that has seemingly failed to meet a large amount of users expectations (specs are fantastic, product falls short is the general theme although not from the beta testers ... but then they didn't spend $400 on it...)

[KngtRider]

Originally posted by Reckless Don't be so sure that a few small voices here had anything to do with it?! MAYBE it did help or speed the process up a bit?! Whatever, he's soon going to be performing one of the most difficult tasks yet - reviewing a card that has seemingly failed to meet a large amount of users expectations (specs are fantastic, product falls short is the general theme although not from the beta testers ... but then they didn't spend $400 on it...)

Yeah but the 'true' beta testers any company picks are usually not nvidiots or trigger happer lanners and know the difference between DMA, breakpoints and S.C.U.M.M

As for the 'something special' ant will get pick one from following(no particular order):

*Something Haig related
*Something Carmack related
*A shark toy or keyring or something with the parhelia logo on it. Gives new meaning to the words 'bite me' (cough nvidia)
*A LAAAAARGE quanity of alcoholic beverage to help him forget all about parhelia and nv30 and blah blah

[Jake]

Originally posted by R0M
Guys,

Calm down, Ant is getting a board and something special, you can stop being angry now

Regards,

That's great R0M. He must be waiting anxiously for the fedex guy now.

Ant, you happy? Ok if I keep my £5?

Regards,

Jake

[Zed_L]

Originally posted by R0M
Guys,
Calm down, Ant is getting a board and something special, you can stop being angry now

Is he really getting the card or are you just kidding? How do you know? Ant, is that true? (hope so... )

[az]

R0M works for the company that makes the Parhelia

AZ

[Ant]

Nobody from Matrox has spoken to me so I know as much as you guys, although I have heard that the something special is a life size blow up rubber doll of Haig

Originally posted by Zed_L

Is he really getting the card or are you just kidding? How do you know? Ant, is that true? (hope so... )

[Sinistral]

- Ant... Are you still going to purchase the card? Sorry if this has been asked before. But are you still interested in the card? -

[Jake]

Originally posted by Ant
Nobody from Matrox has spoken to me so I know as much as you guys, although I have heard that the something special is a life size blow up rubber doll of Haig

AWW you lucky bastard! I wish I had me one of those! Inflatable rubber Haig dolls are truely collecters items.

[Zed_L]

Originally posted by az
R0M works for the company that makes the Parhelia

Oh let me see...hmmm....that would be.......Matrox!
Well then I guess that Ant is getting his Parhelia, which is great!

Originally posted by Ant
Nobody from Matrox has spoken to me so I know as much as you guys, although I have heard that the something special is a life size blow up rubber doll of Haig

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