New Matrox rt 100 card?

On 26 Apr 2004 22:35:07 GMT, Steven Whatley
<swhatley_hal-pc_org.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

| If the card was made by ATI or NVidia, I would say wait. Matrox is
| different. They is very slow at coming out with new cards. They may go
| 5 to 8 years on one series of cards. Right now, Matrox is pumping out
| mutations of their Parhelia and G450 cards.

Matrox reminds me of some of the better stereo speaker companies: many
of their products tend to age gracefully, almost like fine wines. I
replaced everything in my two systems several times since I bought my
Matrox cards. Admittedly, I did buy a new G450 recently since one of
my G400s couldn't handle 1.5V without a physical mod. But I was wary
about making that since every source I found on how to do it assumed
people were born knowing half of the steps already.

Larc



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Larc <larc-news.RemoveThis@jupiterlink.net> wrote:
 > On 26 Apr 2004 22:35:07 GMT, Steven Whatley
 > <swhatley_hal-pc_org.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
 >
 > | If the card was made by ATI or NVidia, I would say wait. Matrox is
 > | different. They is very slow at coming out with new cards. They may go
 > | 5 to 8 years on one series of cards. Right now, Matrox is pumping out
 > | mutations of their Parhelia and G450 cards.
 >
 > Matrox reminds me of some of the better stereo speaker companies: many
 > of their products tend to age gracefully, almost like fine wines. I
 > replaced everything in my two systems several times since I bought my
 > Matrox cards. Admittedly, I did buy a new G450 recently since one of
 > my G400s couldn't handle 1.5V without a physical mod. But I was wary
 > about making that since every source I found on how to do it assumed
 > people were born knowing half of the steps already.

Oh, I was not really complaing about Matrox in my comments. On the
contrary, I am very happy with my 128MB Parhelia-512. It is a great card.
Right now, I am playing URU: Ages Beyond MYST at 1600x1200 @ 32bit giga
color. It looks and plays great for a 3D real-time rendered world. I've
got a G450 in my Linux box and I put a G550 in the system I built for
parents. I plan to stay with Matrox as long as they stay in business.

As I have said many times, "Nobody does dual head like Matrox!"

Later,
Steven<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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I have heard that Matrox is going to coming out with a new RT 100 card and
wondered if anyone knew about it? Is it true?




"Steven Whatley" <swhatley_hal-pc_org.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:408db680$0$1335$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
 > Larc <larc-news.DeleteThis@jupiterlink.net> wrote:
  > > On 26 Apr 2004 22:35:07 GMT, Steven Whatley
  > > <swhatley_hal-pc_org.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
  > >
  > > | If the card was made by ATI or NVidia, I would say wait. Matrox is
  > > | different. They is very slow at coming out with new cards. They may
go
  > > | 5 to 8 years on one series of cards. Right now, Matrox is pumping
out
  > > | mutations of their Parhelia and G450 cards.
  > >
  > > Matrox reminds me of some of the better stereo speaker companies: many
  > > of their products tend to age gracefully, almost like fine wines. I
  > > replaced everything in my two systems several times since I bought my
  > > Matrox cards. Admittedly, I did buy a new G450 recently since one of
  > > my G400s couldn't handle 1.5V without a physical mod. But I was wary
  > > about making that since every source I found on how to do it assumed
  > > people were born knowing half of the steps already.
 >
 > Oh, I was not really complaing about Matrox in my comments. On the
 > contrary, I am very happy with my 128MB Parhelia-512. It is a great card.
 > Right now, I am playing URU: Ages Beyond MYST at 1600x1200 @ 32bit giga
 > color. It looks and plays great for a 3D real-time rendered world. I've
 > got a G450 in my Linux box and I put a G550 in the system I built for
 > parents. I plan to stay with Matrox as long as they stay in business.
 >
 > As I have said many times, "Nobody does dual head like Matrox!"
 >
 > Later,
 > Steven<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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