Guess what

[bsdgeek]

Thank you ElDonAntonio for reminding us of the wayback machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020804222852/http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/series.cfm

http://web.archive.org/web/20030202212520/http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/technology/quad_shader.cfm

Let's see, compare those to the current pages. What's different?

Oh yes, there is no +/- 10% on the old version of the clock speed page. There is no DX9 on the current VS page.

That is ****ing sleazy.

[K6-III]

Amen.

I hope they let Haig get to the bottom of this...

[DGhost]

thank you, i knew i wasn't going insane.

[rylan]

Heh I was wondering the same thing too... thought I was seeing things on that page that weren't there before. I mean come on, the 10% margin allows them to sell a "retail" card thats clocked slower than the bulk speeds.

[Admiral]

I still see "Quad DirectX® 9 Vertex Shader Array" on the vertex shader page.

edit: nope, it's gone, must've been in the cache from when Maggi linked to it in his thread. One refresh and I got to some internet page search engine, another and it showed the new page without the DX9 mention.

[Maggi]

now how many lemmings are falling for their QDI promises ?

[rylan]

Yup, it just mentiones Quad Virtex Shader Array now.

Does anyone else miss the days of the G400/G400MAX when everyone was all excited about Matrox and their cool technology and features?

[Maggi]

Originally posted by rylan
Yup, it just mentiones Quad Virtex Shader Array now.

Does anyone else miss the days of the G400/G400MAX when everyone was all excited about Matrox and their cool technology and features?

... and their brilliant OpenGL ICD that came right out of the box ...

[Admiral]

I miss the TurboGL

[sparky001]

Well they always said that a 'sundog' was a fake. I guess they are proving it.

[Nicram]

sparky001 U're right! they are proving that yhe new cards aren't so cool ppl think they will be

[GT98]

You guys still come here for Matrox Hardware support?

Oh have the mighty have fallen

[Chrono_Wanderer]

LOL, what do you expect? I lost my faith in Matrox more than a year now...

Too bad for those of you who can't live without Matrox, guess you guys are stuck. Matrox is not for normal home users anymore. I already made my change...

[KintaroOE]

Ahh, Chrono

Du hast so recht !
You Are so Right...

[ElDonAntonio]

Re: Guess what

Originally posted by bsdgeek
Thank you ElDonAntonio for reminding us of the wayback machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020804222852/http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/series.cfm

http://web.archive.org/web/20030202212520/http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/technology/quad_shader.cfm

Let's see, compare those to the current pages. What's different?

Oh yes, there is no +/- 10% on the old version of the clock speed page. There is no DX9 on the current VS page.

That is ****ing sleazy.

I usually would not try to slam Matrox, but silently changing the specs of the chip on the web site...you're right, it *is* pretty sleazy...