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Originally posted by Ant
£300 or £600 if you want the full 256MB of DDR memory
£300 or £600 if you want the full 256MB of DDR memory
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£600 ?? Hey! I don`t want to buy the whole company, I just want to buy a new graphics card !!
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I heard the same rumors....$300 bucks for the low end! Makes me wonder if they are using eDRAM since these prices are extreme!Originally posted by MK
£600 ?? Hey! I don`t want to buy the whole company, I just want to buy a new graphics card !!
MK
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Still I think that begins to sound better.
In their prime time Matrox used to be the most expensive (but worth it!), until they decided to release el-cheapo OEM crap (G450/G550). If the new card finally again features all the best money can buy and is worth $500, I'll most probably get one,
(Even though my Radeon8500 should arrive tomorrow....)Comment
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This just isn't true. Lossy JPEG is lossy because of the quantization of the frequency coefficients. No quantization means no loss. And that is entriely possible with the JPEG file format, if the compressor doesn't quantize. I know, I've done it, dammit.in contrary to JPEG which has a lossy compression (independant of the quality-setting).Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Just a quick question really....weren't we supposed to know what the bitboys were up to by now?....
I remember Nappe saying something to that effect a few weeks ago.....
I mean there's that ongoing bet at nvnews and 3dgpu that i'd love to see happen...lol.note to self...
Assumption is the mother of all f***ups...
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Question: maybee I am to ignorant when it comes to memory, but why don't add a fast memory-controller=small buffer, that latches the data for several memory banks. Allowing the data transfer the data from the GPU in one clock to the latch and then let the buffer controller adress the memory banks as way for getting below CL222.Comment
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Uhm, now I have to disagree with you Wombat. I've done this myself as well and without quantization JPG is still lossy. Maybe it depends on the implementation but since the calculations have to be made with real numbers, the inverse calculation always has a small error margin resulting in a slightly different reconstructed image.Originally posted by Wombat
This just isn't true. Lossy JPEG is lossy because of the quantization of the frequency coefficients. No quantization means no loss. And that is entriely possible with the JPEG file format, if the compressor doesn't quantize. I know, I've done it, dammit.
Could have been bad programming on my part though
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I should have read this earlier, I know. Yeah yeah I know.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-13.html
The JPEG organisation points to this FAQ so I guess it´s valid.
On another matter, I know this isn´t todays news but I haven´t seen any comment here on the subject of...
http://www.kentrontech.com/New_News/...sR20011206.htm
any of you clever guys have a comment? Would this tech "solve the bandwidth issue"?
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The lastest rumor I heard that was Bitboyz was gonna send out production samples for reviews to prove that they are doing something (yeah right!). If we dont hear anything with in the next month or so...I would totally write them off and not give them the time of day when it came to accouncments!Originally posted by superfly
Just a quick question really....weren't we supposed to know what the bitboys were up to by now?....
I remember Nappe saying something to that effect a few weeks ago.....
I mean there's that ongoing bet at nvnews and 3dgpu that i'd love to see happen...lol.Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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Oh well...i guess the guys at those sites have nothing to fear then....
But boy did they ever have some really wierd bets going on....One of them promised to eat a can of dogfood(with pictures to prove it) if bitboys actually delivered this time out.... .
note to self...
Assumption is the mother of all f***ups....
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Seems the guy was lucky.
Although he really couldn't know that Infineon was to cancel the cards because of heavy financial trouble....Comment
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Is that the reason why we won't see the cards...?.
Guess lightning does strike twice...shame really.note to self...
Assumption is the mother of all f***ups....
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Did someone say Bitboys?
heh well, Bitboys had a bad luck again.
anyways, I am now watching closely Matrox, because Bitboys next chip (when talking about things that really has changes to get on stores...) seems to be under works and in early stage. (at least it will not come before march.)
GT98: you can call BB as what you ever want.. just remember that based in your opnions, if truck drives against red lights on intersection and you get under it with your family car, it is your fault, not the truck driver.
How about Avalanche's? well, they are really sending press samples to press/websites for testing but I don't know when. it can be tomorrow or next year...
Matrox upcoming chip seems really interesting and still eventhough Matrox and Bitboys has stated that they don't have any co-operation, IMHO and AFAIK (heh heh I really like those...) there is something missing... Like they were hiding something...
anyways, who lives, will see...
and yeah, I still read these boards pretty often, I just don't write so much anymore..."Dippadai"Comment
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Re: Did someone say Bitboys?
hi all
BitBoys Lives ??Originally posted by Nappe1
heh well, Bitboys had a bad luck again.
anyways, I am now watching closely Matrox, because Bitboys next chip (when talking about things that really has changes to get on stores...) seems to be under works and in early stage. (at least it will not come before march.)
Got any info eg url or something? I really want to bug them for a card
The only BitBoys card i seen was old one (few yrs old, pre geforce) it was either bitboys or hat other company that didnt surface
What has Infineon got to do with them? Fab ? Ifineon is in a bit of trouble now.
They did announce 600MHZ parts for nv20 last yr and they never appeared (Elite turned out to be the reference supplier bleh, maybe nv25 uses the infineon parts)
who is Avalanche ? as above got more info ?How about Avalanche's? well, they are really sending press samples to press/websites for testing but I don't know when. it can be tomorrow or next year...
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Do a search in this forum with the keywords BitBoys and Nappe
In short: Infineon was meant to manufacture the BitBoys eDRAM chip (Avalanche) but due to financial troubles the project went down...Comment
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