Will G550 really come?

[villerk]

I'd really love to know if it is really, I mean really, worth waiting for the G550? I could get a G400 MAX DH with about 150 USD (or G450). Should I wait juuust for a couple of weeks more (like I already have ) or buy a G400 MAX and stick with it, as it has extremely good drivers? G550, at first, would lack a support for nearly everything decent. After a month or so they would be good enough to use! (That's the usual case... )

[mdhome]

Unfortunately as Manuel from Fawlty Towers would say
I know nothing.

[Chris B]

Nobody knows anything!

Well allmost nobody... but those that know anything aren´t talking

[CHHAS]

One thing is for certain, if you decide to get the G400Max the G550 will be announced within a week or so

Or am I the only one this happens to ?

[MetalCartman]

No, you're not the only one...

I bought a RainbowRunner G for my G400 and two weeks later, the G450 eTV was available for about the same price as I paid for the RR at matrox' online shop.

I'm now just hoping the RR will be supported with the next generation matrox card...

[villerk]

So are you saying that I can speed up things by buying a G400 ?!

"Thh'at's chc'oool"
- ButtHead

[CHHAS]

Well, 2 weeks after I bought my Kyro the Kyro 2 was announced ...
A month after I bought my Duron the AXIA T-birds started popping up ... (I know they are more expensive, but they are able to run somewhere near 1.5 GHz, so I would have got one of those for sure)

[Muted]

But i knew right away , she was really gonna come .. ..


got a spot that gets me hot , but you ain't been to it

[Joel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Well allmost nobody... but those that know anything aren´t talking.</font>

It really isn't a matter of aren't as it is a matter of can't. NDAs you know?

Joel

[rubank]

There´s really no point in waiting.
If you can get something to your liking NOW, at a good price, it´s a safe bet to make the deal. When something better appears, just sell what you got; if you made a good buy in the first place you shouldn´t have to loose much.

I just bought a Radeon 32DDR Retail for 98$ (and that included NFS Porsche 2000 the store obviously didn´t know what they were selling) and I think I can resell it without a heavy loss if anything better becomes available the next month or two. And I wouldn´t mind that being a Matrox card at all.

rubank

[Wulfman]

strange that you mention it - a friend of mine bought a radeon 32mb DDR for about 105€... but without a game...

(all other shops here sell it for about 150€)

mfg
wulfman

[xortam]

Muted ... tell me about her sister.
That's it! The next Matrox card will be called .......... DYNAMO!!!

[Wombat]

If you leave your G400 under your pillow, Haig will fly in in the middle of the night and leave a G550 in its place.

[Mad Bunion]

yeah...the waiting kinda sucks. specially now that I'm getting a new card.

I gotta decide in a week, and it looks like I'll have to settle for the Radeon 64mb.

it would have been nice to have gotten "that" G550 which had Matrox 2d and GTS 3D speed...ow well.

[CHHAS]

Speaking of NDA's I was really surpriced when M$ included a NDA in their Dx 8.1 beta.