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Dunno about that (eating my hat or feeling like a fool).
I don't doubt they've got something exciting awaiting release. On the other hand, their timing is a bit off for me (well, so far. Still a little time left in which I can return my new GF4 4600, assuming it EVER works for me, lol).
If it's as exciting as everyone says, it'll be around when I spend money again anyway, and then I can pick one up and compare them directly. (About every 12 months I usually upgrade video, sometimes processor, etc.)
One thing I can say especially good about Matrox products, they have long legs. The G400Max currently doing stand-in duties while I wait for Gainward to send me a good card has been here since they started shipping preorders from the Matrox Online Store, and other than overall performance, it still compares very well with everything I've used; IQ in both 2D and 3D is still excellent, and it'd still be my gaming card of choice if it was capable of running UT (soon UT '03) at 1024x768x32 all details at a smoothe framerate. Oh well. At least it lets me play UT at all while the last Gainward wouldn't even boot into WindowsXP without my hand on the card.
In the meantime, if I don't get to pick up the new UberCard from Matrox, and have to settle with the 4600 for another 8 months or so (well, probably 6 months or less, given how long it took between when Matrox announced the G400 series and when I actually received the card I preordered), I'll probably not be too unhappy, since the 4600 should be more than capable of handling all tasks and games I need in the meantime (UT2003 has been developed with a lot of emphasis on nV chips, after all). The only way a see myself feeling dejected on missing Parhelia is if the RSN feature is in there this time around, and if it supports real-time conversion of video sources (sort of like some Sony Camcorder night-shot modes- undressing people
)
I don't doubt they've got something exciting awaiting release. On the other hand, their timing is a bit off for me (well, so far. Still a little time left in which I can return my new GF4 4600, assuming it EVER works for me, lol).
If it's as exciting as everyone says, it'll be around when I spend money again anyway, and then I can pick one up and compare them directly. (About every 12 months I usually upgrade video, sometimes processor, etc.)
One thing I can say especially good about Matrox products, they have long legs. The G400Max currently doing stand-in duties while I wait for Gainward to send me a good card has been here since they started shipping preorders from the Matrox Online Store, and other than overall performance, it still compares very well with everything I've used; IQ in both 2D and 3D is still excellent, and it'd still be my gaming card of choice if it was capable of running UT (soon UT '03) at 1024x768x32 all details at a smoothe framerate. Oh well. At least it lets me play UT at all while the last Gainward wouldn't even boot into WindowsXP without my hand on the card.
In the meantime, if I don't get to pick up the new UberCard from Matrox, and have to settle with the 4600 for another 8 months or so (well, probably 6 months or less, given how long it took between when Matrox announced the G400 series and when I actually received the card I preordered), I'll probably not be too unhappy, since the 4600 should be more than capable of handling all tasks and games I need in the meantime (UT2003 has been developed with a lot of emphasis on nV chips, after all). The only way a see myself feeling dejected on missing Parhelia is if the RSN feature is in there this time around, and if it supports real-time conversion of video sources (sort of like some Sony Camcorder night-shot modes- undressing people
)
is the sound you make while eating "Hat" 
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