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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. POS by baldass_newbie · · Score: 0, Troll

    FWIW, the Trident I have/had (975 3D Image AGP) sucked big-time.
    4MB RAM and lines at 1024?!?!? WTF?
    But it came with my no-name machine and I'm about to pawn it off on my brother (poor bastard.)
    Needless to say, this release is underwhelming.

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  2. Re:Nothing wrong with a little competition... by gmack · · Score: 2, Troll

    I take it you have never had to deal with trident.

    Trident has been known for sucky performance and bad quality hardware.

    I really don't miss them.. I hope they spend a fortune on this and go bankrupt or something.

  3. Re:Their Name by whathappenedtomonday · · Score: 0, Troll
    probably should have come back under a different name

    probably wont help, because people would recognize them by their lousy drivers. ill be damned, sliced and burned if i ever again spend a single cent on a piece of *hit designed by someone who claims to have three teeth, prongs or similar protrusions. the drivers they wrote looked a lot more like three brain cells.

    i owned 2 different trident cards in my life - i gave both to people i really hate.

    learn from the past - dont take history!

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    I hope I didn't brain my damage.