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"Wow! Nice pic! Is 16xFAA enabled in this screenshot?"
Think about it
System 1:
AMD 1.4 AYJHA-Y factory unlocked @ 1656 with Thermalright SK6 and 7k Delta fan
Epox 8K7A
2x256mb Micron pc-2100 DDR
an AGP port all warmed up and ready to be stuffed full of Parhelia II+
SBLIVE 5.1
Maxtor 40g 7,200 @ ATA-100
IBM 40GB 7,200 @ ATA-100
Pinnacle DV Plus firewire
3Com Hardware Modem
Teac 20/10/40 burner
Antec 350w power supply in a Colorcase 303usb Stainless
I'm sold! Is the big M gonna take body part trade in's to afford those?
-D
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
--- Albert Einstein
"Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."
If any Matrox employees happen to be browsing this thread, it would be really _nice_ ....If you could grab some Antialiasing screenshots over the next couple of days.
I think a lot of people would like to see how good it will look with games, as opposed to some of the screenshots found on Matrox's launch PFD's/etc.
I just bought a 17.4" LCD. My wife would shit if I spend about $2000 on a new card and two new LCD's.
I'll have to figure a way to modify the desk so I can buy some cheap 17" tube monitors to use for the sides.
I played UT all the time when it came out and still like to play sometimes (I still suck at it though and get my ass kicked everytime I go online) and I really want UT2003.
Does anyone remember the very cool screenshots put out by Matrox when the G200 was announced?
I recall seeing a screenshot of a car race game and there were realistic looking shadows and haze, and gorgeous details of things such as furniture visible in the windows of office buildings far in the background. I bought the G200 about one month after it was out and didn't find any game that had such a level of detail. Sure, it was better than my previous Rendition V2100 based card, and my M3D before that, but it certainly didn't live up to the expectations I had based on the Matrox marketing screenshots.
I had a similar experience after buying the G400. The tech demo of the pixie flying around bump mapped logs and water surfaces was fine, but that level of detail never materialized in one game I played.
I am reserving my 'wow' for something tangible.
I'm sure things like framerates and AA and many other features will be great, but history tells us the tech demos and screenshots do not necessarily illustrate what you can actually expect to see in a game.
For one thing, typically, the screen shot is carefully selected to show the best view that could potentially occur, but perhaps a level of realism that is only provided in 10% of the general gaming experience. I've flown enough flight simulators and compared with their screenshots to perceive this tendancy. I think this was also true of things like the Expendible screenshots that surfaced here when the G400 was announced. The actual game wasn't that gorgeous to play - at least not in the demo I used.
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