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yea agree!! you should go collect the cash!!! from your personal account
If Matrox accepts to sell everything to me for about a thousand dollars, they're *really* in deep sheeeet!!! (THOSE ARE CANADIAN DOLLARS, FOR CHRIST SAKE!!!)
*dream mode on* even if it's 1000 pounds theya are in deep shite... actually if that's the case for sure i will buy it... at least i can see what Pitou is up to... *dream mode off*
Originally posted by candyman speaking of cash, can anyone here drive a train?
Why that? But to answer your question: Yes, I can. I am a train driver in germany, though I am still in job training, I can drive, as long as everything goes well and no major problems appear...
Anyways, if it's true that Matrox canned the Parhelia 2, then it is very sad
I think the Parhelia has so much potential, if they would go to 0.13µ or even 0.09µ, they could increase the clock speed, they could also fix the core itself (banding and FAA issues) and release it.
In other ways I can understand their decission, today it seems like most people are only looking on benchmark results, especially the reviewers. This killed 3dfx almost two years ago. If you go back and read the V5 5500 reviews, you'll notice that it was always bashed because of being slower than a GeForce 256 and no T&L unit. I see the Parhelia in a similar situation today...
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Originally posted by Le_Bob
They should make the chips and let other companies produce the boards, that would give them huge profit.
That would be a wrong choice.
On the other hand, they could make their own boards and also have other companies produce other boards with the chips.
But they cannot stop making boards, because the board is very important to image quality. Having a 400MHz RAMDAC is no use if the eletronics on board are of poor quality.
I'm sure that many of the Matrox customers buy Matrox because they are sure of the quality of the board's electronics.
Speaking of wich, they don't produce their own PCB. They have some companies doing it for them. Haig said that they only had a small production unit only for the prototype and if needs arise (just like when they released G400Max).
Well, when we say "they make their own boards", we of course mean that they design them and choose the quality of the components... . That's sufficient.
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