New Matrox Interview

[NFS4]

http://www.electic.com/Reviews/Matrox_Interview1/index.shtml

 

[Adul]

Damn big pool. :Q

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I liked the tone of Matrox much more than in the recent Anandtech interview. He actually sounded like a person.

 

[joohang]

I agree. Much better than the ATI interview.

Long live Matrox!
<-- in love with DualHead

 

[Biggs]

The only thing that bothers me is how he &quot;dictates&quot; to us consumers that by getting 30fps(average not minumum if I may add) in Quake 3 will cut it.

 

[Rado]

Yah that is bad...30fps is really really bad.

 

[joohang]

I think he was being quite reasonable. He didn't dictate that to &quot;consumers&quot; (in general) but to &quot;hardcore gamers.&quot;

To me, 30 fps is good enough, although I wouldn't mind if Matrox offered better 3D acceleration.

If I want gaming, I'll go grab an nVIDIA card. If I want excellent 2D and DualHead, I choose Matrox any day.

Unfortunately, there are no cards out there (at an affordable price, at least) that offers best of both worlds.

 

[Lore]

<< Unfortunately, there are no cards out there (at an affordable price, at least) that offers best of both worlds. >>



I haven't tried this myself, but from what I hear I thought the ATI cards were very reasonable in-betweens?

 

[MrHelpful]

Yes. Radeons of all kinds (except the SDR ) offer good FPS while maintaining excellent 2D quality.

 

[joohang]

<< I haven't tried this myself, but from what I hear I thought the ATI cards were very reasonable in-betweens? >>


True. Forgot about Radeon for a while there.

 

[Finality]

I dunno how about a VisionTek Dualhead board for $89

Probably the best 2D you can get with Dualhead.

 

[joohang]

You mean 3D.

Last time I checked, GeForce2 MX isn't popular with 2D.

 

[Dreadogg]

my matrox G-400 Dualhead gets 75 FPS easy In Quake 3 Arena!!!!!!