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  • Always wanted a Matrox: My Story

    Long and Boring!

    1995-1996 First venture into the world of computing: First Time heard of Matrox was from a Magazine I bought, PC Magazine which featured a review on Video Cards, and saw a Matrox Card that top the card in 2D. It was
    That Darn Matrox Millenium Card, which was always out of reach of my budget!

    1997-1998 Woot! Matrox Millenium II?! Wow! Never could afford one! At Least Matrox Mystique 220 was affordable, but I got a Rendition V2100(Diamond Stealth 220) because heard that it has better 3D than Mystique 220 and instead I suffered from bad 2D performance and virtually no driver support from Diamond!

    1999-2000 G400 Announced! Wow! Dream Card! It had everything I ever wanted in a card: 32MB RAM, 300MHz RAMDAC, AGP 4x. My budget was very constrain at that time.
    S3 Savage4 seem to be cheap card to buy to replace the ageing Rendition V2100... Great card for it's 2D speed and MPEG Quality, but as for 3D, it turn out that the memory interface is only 64bits wide and I was stuck at 800x600 for 16bit and 640x480 for 32bit if I want at least 30frames per second...
    Aha! I managed to sell away the Savage4 and with my savings, I got a Matrox G400 DualHead after a careful comparision with Nvidia TNT 2 Ultra.

    2001 and beyond: Still Loving the G400, next videocard would still be another Matrox!


    So what's YOUR story?


    [This message has been edited by dq (edited 26 March 2001).]

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    I bought my Matrox Mystique G200 because it had a subdued looking box... all the other ones were so flashy they hurt my eyes...

    *Grin*

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