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Apparently, nvnews don't accept poor GeForce results. Author "typedef enum" wrote an article showing how Matrox Parhelia-512 beat nVidia GeForce Ti 4600 in benchmark after benchmak. The review was pulled for rewriting and some tabulated comparisons were never allowed as mentioned by the author at Matroxusers forum. The results can now be seen at Beyond3D.

You're messed up. Read this

"Just wanted to let you guys know that the review will be back up soon. We recently went through a new formatting standard, and work is being done to get the review to conform to that standard."

Hmmm?! You don't mean the discussion here? ;)

Hmmmm? The Geforce 4 line supports dual-head display out of one AGP card. ATI 8500 cards might, I know they have both VGA and DVI outs. Hell, the new Matrox Parhelia cards support THREE monitors (check out the surround gaming screenshots). I imagine making a new northbridge chip with another set of memory bandwidth to a 4~8x agp slot wouldnt be as easy as going down to Best Buy and getting one of these cards.

It's quite massive.

It's lucky then, that it is an alpha board, isn't it? :-)

Go read this thread at MURC

Yeah, I think you're a lot closer to reality that the author of this bit of drivel. I personally liked Ant's summary of this article over on the murc.

In particular is this quote: "It all starts off OK but then all of a sudden the LSD the guy dropped must have kicked in."

That about sums up the quality of this little bit of web journalism.

Yeah, I think you're a lot closer to reality that the author of this bit of drivel. I personally liked Ant's summary of this article over on the murc.

In particular is this quote: "It all starts off OK but then all of a sudden the LSD the guy dropped must have kicked in."

That about sums up the quality of this little bit of web journalism.

I asked about this on Matrox's and MURC's forums if Tribes 2 (T2) would run nicely even at the lowest details, etc. The answer is no, even on my Pentium III 600 Mhz with 256 MB and Windows 98.

I have friends who had Voodoo3 cards, and the game was too choppy for them. They all got GeForce 2 cards, and no problems.

So you will need to upgrade the video card (bottle neck) in order to play T2. I will eventually upgrade my video card soon.

Well "AIM" is the full acronym of their software, so you'd probably have to have a full Windows title, like "windows95" or "windowsxp". However this does mean that if I were to create a domain called "windowsxpfixes.com" that had a list of tweaks or fixes to Windows XP (assuming of course it doesn't run perfectly out of the box) that MS could snatch my domain.

That sounds pretty scary. It might even mean that if I created a domain called "xpenhancer.com" to sell a multiple-desktop tool for Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft could legally take the domain away.

Note that nothing here says that Aimster claimed to be made by the same people who made AOL Instant Messenger. The mere fact that the name incoporated the name of related software was enough.

This ruling could have huge ranging implications. Think of how many computer fan websites there are out there that use the name of the product in them. www.matroxusers.com, www.amdzone.com, www.voodooextreme.com, www.geforcefaq.com... Since these are normally fan sites it's in the best interest of the companies with the related trademarks to ket the fans express themselves, but what if company XXX comes out with a crappy product and XXXtweak.com trashes it in a review?

This is pretty scary stuff. In the past it seems to me that most of the domain names taken from someone were non-commercial ones that often were squatting on the name. But now what can you do? If you have a domain name that insults a company, they can take it. If you make a product designed for use with another product they can take your name. If you don't make a product at all and you're careless they can take it. Who is safe? I can see it in the news tomorrow:

Popular Linux enthusiast website "Slashdot.org" will be forced to find a new domain name. A lawyer for Megacorp explained: "The syntax for using commands in our environment is well known to require a command keyset of a slash followed by a dot. Our customers were being confused by the "slashdot" website, assuming it was a reference for our command syntax. These people, who admit to being hackers, appropriated the domain name with no regard for our users' confusion. Thanks to the American Justice System we have been able to restore the rightful use of our domain. We just want to reassure our users that despite the misuse of our domain name by these Linux hackers, our software has not been infected with the GPL virus."

According to www.matroxusers.com ProMax are using the G400 chipset to make dualhead videocards for the Mac.

See here for more info.

This card definitely isn't intended for gaming (although it won't totally suck - you can still buy a voodoo3 for instance), but the upcoming G800 - if the information that MURC and others have come up with is correct - looks like it will be a very sweet card for gaming. Also, the Matrox 3D support under linux is still as good or better than any of the others - frame rates aren't as high as GF, but the drivers are open-source, the specs are open, and the stability is far superior. Also, DualHead is supported under linux; NV's TwinView is conspicuous by its absence, and is even missing some features in windoze. And then there's the issue of 3D image quality...

Yes, matrox cards rock. Get their linux beta drivers (with source) from murc. Who cares about bleeding edge three-dee when it's obsolete in six months and 2d suffers (quality and speed) suffers in the meantime.

It's like vga support back in the old school. new cards like s3 had fast blitters but only with their windows 3.11 drivers. Kick down to dos to run a game, and perfomance blows (time to get a et4000 or w32).

Btw - matrox has kick ass vga _and_ vesa.. Although there are too many vesa modes to keep programmed in bios, so they are dropping the lower res ones...

If you check out the Matrox Users Resource Centre's news story for August 7th, you'll see a some info from within the latest driver release showing the G800 will be using something called FCRAM. Apparently thats "Fast Cycle" RAM, and is more or less a faster SDRAM. There's a short article here about what FCRAM is. It's built by Fujitsu and is supposedly better for multimedia applications where there is a significant amount of random access. There must be something to the tech, otherwise Matrox would be going with the more standard DDR SDRAM, which must be cheaper to produce because everyone is using it...

www.desktopvideoworld.com

and

www.matroxusers.com

You'll find a ton of info on these sites - about Pinnacle, Matrox (IE RT1200), and others.

Cheers.
Coolfish

I Have the G400 MAX, its run really nicely under Debian 2.1 for a while now. Xfree4.0 will support it, as soon as Precision Insight release their drivers for it RSN. There are Linux clocking utils for these and all the info you need is on matroxusers.com I'm a satisfied user! :)

Matrox Users

see this image. It's from Quake 3, with all the effects on. btw it's 615Kb JPG...

as long as we're ON THE TOPIC of benchmarks for future chipsets, benchmarks for the Matrox G400MAX are available at www.matroxusers.com