OK, next question... What do you want?

[Ali]

As we will probably have to wait at least another 2 years after the next card, I wont settle for anything that doesnt have all DX8 functions.

T&L must be getting close to being used, so it would be silly to buy an expensive card nowdays without it. For a cheap card, its ok not to have it.

DH is a must, because Im hooked now.

An improved BIOS on the card, so it doesnt get fried at high FSB speeds.

For a cheap card (US$100-199) I would expect MX to GTS speed, for a real card (US$200-400) I would expect something faster than the Geforce3. I think cards over US$400 should stay in the realm of profesional users.(although my Mill2AGP and Voodoo2 SLI rig cost the equivalent of about US$1000 at the time).

I like the idea of upgrades. Such as SLI, or RR-G series. If this could be applied to an addon T&L card, that would be good.

I dont personaly like fans on Graphics cards, but if needed, make it quiet.

Thats about it I suppose. OpenGL doesnt realy worry me too much. The only thing I would use it for is Quake3. The wrapper back in Quake 2 days was good enough for me though

Oh, and to have it available soon, because flashing the BIOS on my G400 every week is getting annoying.

Ali

[Topha]

a watercooling device would be really cool (<--- unvoluntary pun there, hehe )

[WaR-ped]

I'd like a card that will last me atleast two years. so what do i want? lots of stuff:

*SMP SUPPORT!!!! (Not compatibility. support! i.e. better performance when two cpus are used)
*Dual DVI outputs with individual RAMDACs capable of up to 2048x1600 resolution each(w/ tv-out and d-sub adapters of course)
*Polygon performance of an Oxygen GVX1 Pro atleast when using cad and animation programs
*specialized drivers for Pro Engineer
*Gaming performance of a Geforce 2 Pro
*Texture compression for games
*64MB DDR SDRAM with the possibility of offering 128MB
*256bit dualbus
*complete DX8 support
*same top notch quality as my G400MAX
*improved edualhead so that fullscreen programs dont crap out when using edualhead
*price: under $400

I dont mind the price since something like this will have me set for atleast 2 years and pretty much turn my system into a walking badass the moment its plugged in. hehe.

[roadie]

i just really want something that will allow me to play every game that is around now, and that will be out in the next 1 to 2 years at 1024*768*32 with all the eye candy on apart from fsaa which is useless unless you are playing a reeeeeeaaaaaaallllllllyyyyyyy slow game. therefore something that is faster than radeon 64 ddr, because otherwise there is no point in getting a matrox card, apart from being a murcer

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asus k7m @111fsb
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g400max @ 165/220
win98se
pdesk 6.51

[WaR-ped]

wouldnt that be a GF2?

[villerk]

Hello Santa, I'd like an extremely good support for other operating systems than Windows. E.g. for Linux on different platforms (PPC, x86), MacOS, AmigaOS, BeOS (on both PPC and x86). You see, I use a lot different OS's (well, not really MacOS and AmigaOS... there's no PC version yet), and I plan to buy a PPC-machine in near (~5 year) future. Mem size doesn't matter, 32 megs is fine, as no game even now uses no more that 20+ megs! (This might change in future). DualHead is absolutely a MUST! Bus size should be 256 bits. Otherwise everything like mentioned here before.

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[WaR-ped]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by villerk:
Mem size doesn't matter, 32 megs is fine, as no game even now uses no more that 20+ megs! (This might change in future).</font>

uhh... buddy? How do you explain the performance increase in extremely hi resolution programs.. i.e. 1600x1200 etc. when comparing two cards of the exact same design except one has 32mb of ram and the other has 64mb. next done tell me that 32bit color is a waste and that 16bit is all we need. are you from 3dfx? hehe.

[EvilDonnyboy]

It's true that in most situations, 32mb is enough. With texture compression, u'd be hard pressed to fill up a 32mb card. Of course 64mb of memory is a welcome feature.

But 128mb is ridiculous. It'd cost way too much for absolutely no increase in speed. Even with FSAA on at high res, and tons and tons of textures, you won't be able to fill 128mb up. If you try running something that uses up that much memory, it'd prolly run soo slow, it'd be pointless.

[Whatchamacallit]

My $0.02

1)Continued Quality for both Hardware and Software
2)Dual-Head
3)Continued support for XFree86. They don't have to develop the drivers, but make the information about the hardware available so others can develop them.
4)DVI + Analog output
5)Better 3D performance;get ahead of the pack or at least keep up.
6)DX8 support,Hardware T&L, and other gaming stuff.

I would be willing to pay up to $250 for a quality video card from matrox.

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[Dr Mordrid]

My wish list:

1. like now, the best 2D display around

2. An ICD like the one on my 3D systmes Oxygen GVX1 Pro. WOW....what a difference.

3. multiple pipelines

4. h/w T&L

5. dual-head.

6. separate vidout.

7. OpenGL overlays in both heads.

Basically something like this;

http://www.3dlabs.com/product/card/o..._pro_specs.htm

but more geared to normal use and not just 3D editing. Not asking for much

Note the in-hardware MPEG-2 motion compensation & stereo goggles port.

Dr. Mordrid



[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 13 May 2001).]

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Dr Mordrid:
... Note the in-hardware MPEG-2 motion compensation ...</font>

Now you've got my interest. I wonder if it can handle 720p HDTV? I'll check out the link in a bit. How much do these card go for? Hopefully it has wide platform support. What are the drawbacks for normal desktop/gaming use?

[xortam]

The Oxygen GVX1 Pro is priced at $999.00 and only runs under WinNT/Win2K. This card isn't for me.

[Novdid]

And it´s in the same league as g200 in games.

Absolutely nothing for me!!!

[Michel]

The only thing I want is to be able to play Tribes2 with all candy on at 1900x1440 at 30fps.
ok now for real:

-Matrox picture quality
-Good drivers 'out of the box'
-Stable fps at gf2(not mx) speed level
-NON choppy DVD-playback on PAL
-Stable AGP4x (not like g400max which can't even run agp2x)
-priced at range 150-250 US dollars

Michel



[This message has been edited by Michel (edited 17 May 2001).]

[tr4veler]

I'd settle for KyroII/GF2 preformance and these Quality OpenGL drivers they keep talking about. Half the cool stuff isn't quite right ( GLQuake, OpenGL.org demo's, tribes1, UT, etc)

Overlay on either head , PAL60, task switch from full screen.

Basicly Quality, Stability and Flexability. Matrox doesn't need to impress me with their speed. Show me Quake in a window, DVD, Divx, UT all running at once, spred out across both heads. move them from one to the other, windowed/fullscreen. I know it would be like watching a slide show but, if it worked that would be more impressive than Doom3 at 200fps full screen on one monitor.

I'd like to still have the option of tweeking for performace but I don't need it. I don't even mind if this is not in ther first revision of the drivers, but don't break stuff as the version numbers go up (Q3 vertex lighting, etc)