VigilAnt Rant and Some Observations

[Chrono_Wanderer]

just look at their data center... crazy... no wonder why matrox cannot keep up with nv's 3d (but amazingly M is still better than nv in many areas). Seriously i wonder what the M's headquarter is like. probably i will never know unless i have a chance to work there (or a raid on matrox to steal Pitou of course ) after all matrox engineers should not be that lame... yes... "matrox: designed by professionals for professionals" wait... that's a 3dlabs line... i will take that back

i wonder how the benchies between 9700 and nv30 will be. Probably tie each other tho, since now the cpu is ironicly the bottleneck.

[Wombat]

That's not ironic, it's lame design. There's nothing really wrong with having the video card use the CPU for some stuff, but when it becomes THAT dependent, shame on the video card.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
speaking of sockets... maybe some day we will see gfx cards with g/vpus removeable... would have been great if P, P8x and P2 are pin competible...

damn can't wait for NV30 launch... nvBlur all the way... yes nVIDIA making 2d blury

There is (was?) a project for a standard socket for GPU (Project X, Power X? Can't remember....)

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
just look at their data center... crazy... no wonder why matrox cannot keep up with nv's 3d (but amazingly M is still better than nv in many areas). Seriously i wonder what the M's headquarter is like. probably i will never know unless i have a chance to work there (or a raid on matrox to steal Pitou of course ) after all matrox engineers should not be that lame... yes... "matrox: designed by professionals for professionals" wait... that's a 3dlabs line... i will take that back

i wonder how the benchies between 9700 and nv30 will be. Probably tie each other tho, since now the cpu is ironicly the bottleneck.

nahh...they'll be running them on handpicked 4GHz P4 OCed to 5GHz with VapoChill

[Ant]

I'd guess rather empty by the sounds of all the lay offs.

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Seriously i wonder what the M's headquarter is like.

[GNEP]

Yup - sure is tough in the hard disk business these days...

[Kurt]

Originally posted by GNEP
Yup - sure is tough in the hard disk business these days...

hard disk-business

[Ryu Connor]

I'm surprised at the lack of a bullet point number six. Fixing the banding on the Parhelia.

[DentyCracker]

I think it is implied that the 8x part has fixed those problems. I am seriously considering buying an nforce2 based board and using the onboard video until they release the 8x Parhelia for that reason. (Need to rid myself of that KT7 now, and giving this macihine I have to my GF)

[Pace]

Why are you giving a macihine to your GeForce?

[Peter Aragon]

Probably:
GF = GirlFriend

I see she's gonna get a G400DH, who would be so cruel to torture his girlfriend with a Gefarce card?

[UberLord]

Originally posted by Wombat
And what game manufacturer DOESN'T recommend the fastest card for their game?

Last I checked nVidia's logo was splashed over UT2003 intro screen. And there was me thinking that ATI 9700 was the fastest

[knirfie]

Originally posted by Pace
Why are you giving a macihine to your GeForce?

well, now we know what kind of a life you have

[thop]

[dZeus]

ehm... sarcasm?