When a Matrox for hardcore gamers!!??!?

[BS82]

When?!??!

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[James Gifford]

BS82 wrote:
> When?!??!

Why? So they can compete for the bux of whiny, demanding 15yo's like ATI
and the Nvidia makers?

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[Dean]

Start looking at the competition. I doubt they would ever make a viable
high end gamers card. They tried and it was named the Parhelia. I think
people who have a Matrox GXXX right now are not gamers and would not likely
upgrade unless they want multiple heads, so Matrox is in a bind. Either
produce a card that will attract gamers to upgrade and bring in new revenue
or continue in the 2D market that they have already saturated... anybody who
wanted a Matrox card for 2D already has one.

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[m..leuck]

"BS82" <simNONSPAMMAR...@tiscali.it> wrote in message
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Apparently they are coming out with something new soon

http://www.techview.nl/news/777

[Nobody_of_Consequence]

I doubt gamers would be interested in stripped down versions of Parhelia.

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[Ed Forsythe]

Unfortunately never IMHO. ATI is light years ahead of Matrox and NVidia may
never recover from their latest fiasco.
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[Steven Whatley]

BS82 <simNONSPAMMAR...@tiscali.it> wrote:
> When?!??!

What can Matrox do 3D graphics-wise that ATI and Nvidia are not already
doing? Howerver, Matrox does do 2D graphics stuff (DH Zoom, PixelTOUCH)
that ATI and Nvideo do not do.

Later,
Steven -- A happy Parehila owner
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[BS82]

"Ed Forsythe" <EdFor...@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Unfortunately never IMHO. ATI is light years ahead of Matrox and NVidia
may
> never recover from their latest fiasco.

fiasco!??!? ma sei italiano?

[Kevin Lawton]

BS82 wrote:
>> When?!??!
Why ?
If you want to play games why not get an X-box instead (or even as well).
Far, far cheaper and then you don't need Windoze on your PC either. ;-)
If you look at Matrox's whole product line, you'll see they are more active
in the 'quality' side of the graphics market - medical imaging, digital
video capture, etc. Leave the games for the toy manufacturers (Micro$oft)
and those with money to burn.

[BS82]

"Kevin Lawton" <ke...@btopenworld.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Because i love my g400....but i have just buy a radeon 9700

[Tarek Beauclair]

Go shove your Celeron piece of shit Xbox up your fucking ass. The only thing
the Xbox is good for are sports games or driving around in a circle games. I
couldn't consider driving a machine a sports game.

[Kevin Lawton]

Gosh, you sound so intelligent ! I stand in awe wondering how I could
possibley be worthy to reply to you.
You can insult people and you can use foul language, you really are so very
grown up, aren't you ?
So, are you able to stand upright on your hind legs yet as well ?

[Rich]

Only when he looks over the sides of his cot.... ha ha

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[Kevin Lawton]

I've got this strange compulsion to disagree with you a little on that, and
yet agree a little as well !
I have to agree with you that the X-box is particularly good for playing
games. That is, after all, exactly what it was designed for. It seems wierd,
Micro$oft are essentially a software company, but their best products are
hardware !
Anyway, the X-box is also good for quite a few other things than just
playing games. It is not too difficult to get Linux running on it, and once
you've got a decent op system the world's your oyster. The USB ports are
fine for keyboard and mouse. The 733 MHz Pentium-II is plenty good enough
for running an Oracle databse, or a Web Server (Apache) or doing Firewall
and security chores. How else could you get that spec of hardware for the
price ? I am currently investigating the possibility of getting BeOS
running on a X-box, which should be really interesting !
Unfortunately, we've drifted miles off-topic with this as the X-box doesn't
use Matrox graphics - it uses Nvidia. Shame !

[SIMONFB]

>It seems wierd,
>Micro$oft are essentially a software company, but their best products are
>hardware !

i'll agree with this - their sidewinder forcefeedback steeringwheel is bloody
fantastic

simon

[Arthur Hagen]

"SIMONFB" <sim...@aol.comatose> wrote in message
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Less resolution than the two Logitech MOMO steering wheels, one less axis
(you can't break and gas at the same time -- one cancels out the other), and
plastic mounted bearings instead of metal. I can only presume that you
haven't had a chance to use both a Microsoft and a Logitech MOMO. I'll
never go back to a Microsoft Force Feedback wheel -- it's so imprecise and
"plasticy", never mind that I couldn't break and gas at the same time to
keep the revs up, and thus lost precious time in racing games.

Regards,
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