GF4 be owned!

One question: How much is 236 MBs of DDR SDRAM at 20GB/s gonna cost? I\'m guessing in the thousands.:eek:

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Originally posted by mm
matrox did have wonderfull 2d back then, no argument there

but nvidia has made leaps and bounds in the 2d department

its 3D speed and quality that pulls gamers in, and thats who buys these cards

True, nVidia has fixed their 2d quality, mostly by making their policies stricter, vid card companies used low quality materials and the rf filters which clean out the noise in the picture degraded the quality of the picture.

However, Matrox has and will continue to remain the king if output quality, I\'ve used computers with G400\'s that had cheap displays, and the image quality was on par with my Gf2 Sony G400 setup. Now imagine if I\'d finally get a decent vid card, color calibrating in Photoshop would be a whole lot easier.

amiga can join matrox back in the closet after they waste millions of venture capatalism

anyone read that yugo\'s are trying to make a comeback?

i wish i had money to burn

I\'m 1 of those Amiga fans , but to be honest I\'m sitting on the fence for this one. I\'ll see what it\'s like from others at the Amiga club before I even consider it. Anywayz I\'ve got my name down for a PS2 Linux kit atm .

I was just reading the article on firingsquad and all the while I was thinking NV30 shouldn\'t be too far away from this one. Since I\'m an nVidia whore, I\'m hoping it won\'t.

Lol mm... you own the Ti4600 right?

cough *biased* cough

I don\'t mind nVidea at all, they make good and fast products. But I won\'t lick their @sses and if anyone else releases something that is on par or better, I\'m happy. More competion is better for everyone.

And nVidea is/was starting too look like the MS of gfx cards. Let\'s hear a YAY for ATi and Matrox.

d00d, ATI still owns nVidia in terms of volume. nVidia only looks like the dominant party cuz it rapes ATI on the test bench. Anyhoo, let it be known to all that my GeForce4 Ti 4200 will be arrivng tomorrow. HA :P

no way, nvidia completely dominates the OEM market

ATI just picks up the scraps

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020513/sfm005_1.html

read that if yer bored

look what they did to 3DFX within a couple years

i miss my voodoo5 tho

Heh. Ah whell.. I guess they\'re not the underdogs anymore. :)Wasn\'t that a quick ascent... ATI\'s dominant days seems like a week ago.

Well, you guys can poo-pah it all in advance, but The Firing Squad has a preview of the board (only two tests so far), which is showing it as a very promising card.  It\'s lower (of the two) end version, the one above will cost around 500 at release in a few weeks, the higher... er... more.  
Firing Squad thinks this beats the GF4 (especially with FAA, super bandwidth, multiscreen, and video input/output at true HDTV levels).  They don\'t know enough about the NV30 to see how it will compare to that one though.  They also praise matrox for declaring outright that there will be at most, a new generation every year... rather than the 6 months that irritates us all with NVidia.  This means we might actually see games that use the card before a whole new card is out, with a whole new set of tools.  Obviously we have to wait and see how it performs in actual game benchmark tests, but if it\'s worth the extra 40% over the TI4600, you can bet plenty of us will go with it.

Matrox kicks ass. They\'ve always been the best at 2D and throwing in a great set of features with every card. They were the first with dual head and bump mapping technology and their TV-out support is wicked. Matrox = quality (IMHO).

tech demos mean jack **** to me, I have yet to see a game that runs at  125 mpps like the gf3 was \'supposed\' to do, and i bet we will never see such a game due to gamers like me who cant be botherd upgrading their system

People need to stop overhyping their products and show us realistic specs with some realistic playable tech demos

Those specs are really marketing gimmicks (most).

Nothing is gonna be made possible if the fill-rate is complete crap. But, their product or shall I say "vapor ware" is going to prove new image quality watermarks.

Did you see the fps in 3Dmark 2001 on that Matrox? 2fps in the first scene. Of course it\'s just vaporware, but seriously, this is a company that had less than a doorstop product that was able to compete for the last 5-6 years.

Gaming on 3 monitors? ROFL, please. That\'s really redicilous. It totaly stretches out the screen and becomes a joke to even play at. Unless you got literally 3 grand to burn, go ahead and have a ball, but that feature is .2% innovative at best.

Yeah, but competition is still nice. Personally I think it\'s a great move by Matrox and I can\'t wait to see more \'next-gen\' gfxcards from the other companies. And I doubt the fill rate will be \'complete crap\'.

* Nu blinks.

... So uh... Just stick with the G4 Ti4600? I\'m getting a new PC with a new graphics card pretty soon, I dont want to waste my money. o_o