MILLennium G800 soon

[cbman]

Not suprise.. I forgot to mention that someone only registered the Faster than Enery Transistor under the mark of a Capital M.

[Zyn]

Haig, if you can throw a built in microwave in it too, you know, to cook hotdogs while fragging..... I think the sales well increase.

And while were adding features you might want to consider a free dog walker everytime you buy one, plus a free Tshirt.

[cbman]

Now the T-Shirt is a good idea... and that way you get cost effective advertising... (Because people who buy Matrox generally do go out and socialize with other real humans... rather than be glued to a sub-par display slowing killing their eyes whilst watching a framerate counter desperately hoping for that extra FPS from a new driver.)

[KngtRider]

Originally posted by Ant
Ah I see, you mean rumours like this causing damage...

<i>"ATI R300 and Matrox Parheila GPU and maybe S3 Columbia are more powerfull on paper than the rumoured Nvidia products and ATI R8500(DX 8.1) is being used as an devleopment platform by Microsoft for DirectX 9, who are suprisinglly not using Nvidia this time."</i>

I wonder where <i>this</i> site came across the Parhelia specs?

heh heh

ive have seen that paragraph pasted through quite a few forums and caught me offguard

that was re reactorcritical news btw, no one in here knows anything about the new matrox part cough cough

considering intel labs have a experimental x86-32 10ghz ALU (anandtech), matrox would/should have something fancy, considering the following

*first d3d hal implementation on consumer grade pci card (mill 1, no texture mapping though)
*3d api support (gl quake)
*leading overlay/csc capabailites on above
*leading high speed ram usage on above
*first dualhead/embm/dvdmax
*first independant display under 2k

re bump mapping, who ever said its the best eye candy is absoluetly right

iirc matrox hasnt shown g550 at the major show/s yet, last time it was the 450, the shows will show us the light re this new card

[DuRaNgO]

Damn, I told that baby-sitter not to talk!

Originally posted by Jammrock
I heard from my brother's, friend's, uncles, baby-sitter, whose brother-in-law knows someone who works as a janitor at Matrox, that the Parhelia will be clocked at 500 MHz, have 64 MB eDRAM plus 128-256 MB 128-bit DDR, have 2 monitor outs, 2 s-video outs, with an optional DVI add-on card. It's fully DX8 AND DX9 compatible, has 8 texture/pixel pipes, and does FSAA 16x. At 1600x1200x32-bit, with FSAA 16x turned on they have Quake 3 running at 250 fps!!! With unoptimized drivers!!!

They flew John Carmack to Montreal to demo Doom 3 on the Parhelia. He crapped his pants when they ran Doom 3 @ 1600x1200x32-bit at an average 150 fps. Carmack said e is going to make a special Parhelia version of Doom 3 to take adavantage of Quad-head and RSN, for people who want to use supermodel skins.

Best of all...it will be announced at CeBit and the going price will be under $300...honest

Jammrock

[Tempest]

Originally posted by Ant in another thread:
There are bigger and better markets than gamers for Matrox with a high end card that will tolerate high prices. Maybe Matrox will still accomodate the gamer in the next card but then move on to a higher plain.

Originally posted by Ant (about the mobile/notebook market):
Expect a market shift in the future but not in that direction.

So the professional market it is then. But although developers need professional hardware too, I don't think Matrox will go through all these gaming events just to get a glimpse of the world of OpenGl - although their visibility is of course very important as a "newbie" to the scene.
So what I think (and hope) they will do is this: Soon&trade; we will see a well equipped multi-purpose card from Matrox (think of G400 upped to today's requirements). A bit later Matrox will introduce the "Quadro" version of their new design (probably a little more differences than a couple of resistors though ).
After that, Matrox' target market will shift from the consumer end to professional graphics. They will probably keep the consumer part of their business alive as well, but their main area of interest will be the professionals.

[Ant]

Tempest attains first dan ranking in the fabled art of reading between the lines.

[Maggi]

Say Tempest, do you have an idea how those games are developed ?

Don't you think that developing 3D Games is probably done using professional 3D apps, requiring a professional 3D card ?

[Maggi]

Hey Ant,

is it like 3 First Dan rankings equal to a Golden Dan ?

[Sasq]

I am the Alpha Dan and the Omega Dan

Dan

[Tempest]

Originally posted by Maggi
Don't you think that developing 3D Games is probably done using professional 3D apps, requiring a professional 3D card ?

Yes, and that's what I said:

Originally posted by Tempest
although developers need professional hardware too, I don't think...

Edit: I hope you aren't hinting that Matrox will not release a consumer version of their new card

[Maggi]

I'm hinting nothing, since I don't know nothing ...

[Schattenreiter]

Of course they will release a consumer card version...

...or so I hope.

Anyway, it would be way cool if they would release three versions of the new card. One for the Professional 3D-Cad, one for the hardcore gamer, and one for the hobby gamer who aims that his wife stays happy (Darling dear, I spend the holiday-money for a new graphic-card. Is okay?)

Something differnt though: Haig? Could we bribe you with a bottle of scotch?

[Tempest]

I'm hinting nothing, since I don't know nothing ...

Hey, me neither! Let's drink to our ignorance... Prost!

[Haig]

Haig? Could we bribe you with a bottle of scotch?

Even if you tie me down and pour hot fax beer down my throat, I will not speak