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New Graphics Company, With Working Cards

Posted by timothy on from the clever-of-them-to-have-actual-cards dept.

gladbach writes "Toms Hardware has in their hands an actual working card, unlike other vaporware cardmakers *cough* bitboys *cough*... To quote Toms: 'A new player dares enters the graphics card market that ATi and Nvidia have dominated for so long. XGI (eXtreme Graphics Innovation), based in Taiwan of course, comes at the market leaders with a line of cards for a whole lot less money. We look at XGI's product range, and offer results of a beta model from XGIs top model Volari Duo V8 Ultra.'"

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  1. Re:Aren't you forgetting someone? by Ark42 · · Score: 4, Interesting



    I personally find NVidia's TwinView to work a lot better, if you have a card with two outputs, which most of the GF4s and higher seem to have now.

    We might as well ask about S3 if we're asking about Matrox. Remember that great card they had a while back?

    The best we can hope for is a pricewar I think. Cheaper Nvidia or ATI cards is always better.

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    Morphing Software
  2. Re:Ehh... best of luck to them, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Matrox used to be a leader in the graphics market. I lived in Dorval and I now some people who used to work there. The story is they started to get all uppity about potential new employees' grade point averages. They would only hire people with a GPA above 3.8.


    The thing is, to get these marks you either cheat, or are an idiot savant, or effectively a genius. Now you put all these people in the same room, what do you get? Superior products? No.


    You get ego clashes, clueless idiots, hangers-on and cheaters who couldn't design a 10ms monostable with a 555 and a book from Radio Shack. NO real-world experience, NO real skills whatsoever.
    The Matrox you see today is due to universities run wild and employers being blinded by them.


    Just another example of the irrelevance of university to real-world problems.

  3. Entice them to support Linux by kenneth_martens · · Score: 4, Interesting

    XGI is a new player in this market and need something to distinguish themselves from the competition. This is an opportunity to persuade them that supporting Linux by releasing drivers would gain them positive reviews and have an impact on sales. Linux is gaining in popularity in the enterprise and server areas, so announcing Linux support for their products would sort of *legitimize* XGI's cards. It's worth a shot--the question is, how do we convince them?