How many of you are gonna buy the P8x?

[Wombat]

I voted No, but it's because of Matrox's support policies. NOT their support people, Haig & co. rock.

Because they randomly stop releasing drivers for not-very-old products.

Because they refuse to acknowledge design bugs in their cards.

Because they change their web pages AFTER the fact to (+/- 10%).

Because I'm pretty sure that even after all this time, they still have an illegal EULA on their Linux Gxxx drivers.

etc, etc.

[XHotKolaX]

No, because I'm "lucky" enough to have a P that clocks to a P8X. And I don't like where the company is redirecting.

Plus everything Wombat mentioned.

[K6-III]

Because I'm not happy with the lack of proper Linux drivers and AMD64 windows drivers for my current P, my answer is no.

If these change, that answer could change as well.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

no, because P8X cannot handle future games with max quality (PS 3.0 etc)

and because of its crappy corp repetition for home users these days (MGA division).

and because it has no proper linux and BSD drivers

[Nappe1]

none of the now released cards can handle future games with full detail when PS 3.0 comes minimum requirement.


as owner of 9700 non-pro (chip is now almost 2 years old and my card is 1.5 years old.) I am yet to see power of PS 2.0. While I was up to buying latest and fastest hardware few years back, I never got on point where my system would really choking (means that playability was getting lost even on minimum details.) but when my income dropped for few years, I was forced to rethink the situation again. For example, GeForce DDR on my 2nd computer was fast enough up to these days and Track Mania was first game that I didn't get running otherwise than dropping everything to minimum. Still, 5 years for a card feels like forever, but it really isn't. The trend has been existed long before, but I have just been so damn stupid and ready to pay 200 Euros more, every time I can't keep the view distance on full at any racing game.

and well, as said, I d not play much on 1st computer new games anymore, so gaming performance in new games isn't so important.

[Enak]

Yes,

Because surround gaming rocks! And I need as much power as possible from a surround enabled card.

[Faramir1966]

Yes!
But only beacause i know that i cannot resist in the end.
Sounds stupid i know......

[Paddy the wak]

I'm with Enak !

[lecter]

Nope...I'm quite happy with my Parhelia and I don't game too much anymore. No banding, either, so it's a keeper for a while more.

[DGhost]

Surround gaming isn't enough of a feature to make it worth it to me...

maybe if i played racing games... maybe if i played flight sims... maybe if i played Q3 or UT2k4 on easy...

[gangster]

if there was a trade-up program that didn't suck, i'd upgrade...

[Greebe]

Mine died a year ago last Feb due to a beta BIOS we were testing. Have been sitting on it since and think now would be a good time to RMA

[Che Guevara]

First I planned to buy a P8x asap, then I thought about 'summer'. Now I "know" 'summer' is no alternative for me, but borat said something about the P8x FAA I don't like

Buy a P8x or stay with P4x

[bsdgeek]

Originally posted by Greebe
Mine died a year ago last Feb due to a beta BIOS we were testing. Have been sitting on it since and think now would be a good time to RMA

Maybe you've got the connections, but when I thought my 2nd DVI port was ****ed, Haig said I would get a normal P4x in RMA.

[Elie]

AGP cards will not be produced for much longer. Companies will start focusing on PCI-X.

Matrox and ATI both have PCI-X versions.

Regards,
Elie