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Trident Back From the Dead

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-plain-wierd dept.

FunkyMonkey writes "It seems that Trident is trying to pull a Matrox and resurrect themselves from the 3D video card grave yard. AnandTech posted a Trident XP4 Preview today that has some interesting information on Trident's latest stab at the graphics market. The company is claiming 80% the performance of the GeForce 4 TI 4600 at a price tag of less than $100 USD including DX 9 support. How? A 0.13 micron process and only 30 million transistors thanks to pipeline resource sharing. "

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  1. Trident by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would *not* recommend Trident to anybody who is in the market. It is sugary and rots your effing teeth right out of your god damn mouth. I would instead go with Wrigley's Extra instead. Also Wrigley is a very moral company and they named the baseball field in Chicago. Please to be thanking you.

  2. Chew on this... by phraktyl · · Score: 2, Funny

    We had a Trident card in the first 486 (SX33!) we had, and I remember thinking that I could probably get a faster display using Trident Gum...

    Hope they've changed things a bit.

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    Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
  3. Oh nooo!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stay dead, you evil bastard! Stay dead!!!

    *ahem*

    Yes, sir. I ownded a Trident, too.

  4. Re:Trident 8900 by ThereIsNoSporkNeo · · Score: 3, Funny

    In breaking news, market fluff has been found to have super-conductive capabilites.

    This substance, also known as corporate BS (cBS2) is available almost anywhere where products are sold. Due to its ready availability and near-infinite supply, specialists are looking into its computing usages.

    Marketing fluff has long been known to transfer information at a very great rate, often causing the specs of a product to arrive before the product itself is created. This, using the theory of relativity, means that the cBS2 is transfering information at a rate greater than the speed of light, making it the fastest transfer medium that has been found up to this point.

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    With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
  5. Re:Trident 8900 by topham · · Score: 4, Funny

    yes i can. Their old 256K cards, upgradable to 512K had such a slow memory/DAC combination that the frequency required to support the card was below that of almost any monitor available on the market at the time.

    I choked when I had to replace the card. Replaced it with an ET4000 card. (Only problem with Et4000 was its allergy to PCI-ISA bridge chipsets.).

    For an ISA card it was damn fast.
    (Tridents response to me when I asked about the frequency problem was 'Go buy a new, 1Meg video card'. I did... it just wasn't a trident.)

  6. Re:Marketing stratagey 101 by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny
    2. Charge less little for it
    • Less little? Is that anything like more gooder?
  7. Re:Their Name by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 2, Funny

    The parent is *not* a troll. I've wasted too many hours trying to get dipshit trident drivers to work. Why anyone would buy their stuff when you can get a perfectly good ATI 64meg AGP board for about $70 I don't know.

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    "Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
  8. Re:Not a DirectX 9 part by CaseyB · · Score: 3, Funny
    Big sticker on front of box:

    "HEY KIDS!! Now with GL_NV_OCCLUSION_QUERY and GL_NV_VERTEXT_ARRAY_RANGE2 support!"