Matrox: a tradition of image quality excellence

[Pace]

From the Matrox In-the-Loop Newsletter:
Matrox: a tradition of image quality excellence
Recognized throughout the industry for producing graphics cards with pristine image quality, Matrox embodies dedication and leadership by consistently offering high-quality graphics solutions for professional and mainstream computing. With Matrox Parhelia’s superb output quality recently garnering three prestigious Best Video Hardware Guide™ awards from DisplayMate® Technologies Corporation, Matrox’s long-standing tradition of providing unparalleled image quality is clearer than ever.
http://www.matrox.com/mga/start/news...uk/feature.cfm

Interesting, don't ya think?

P.

[Indiana]

If you look at the other cards they rate as high quality, you can see that it seems easy to get their award with a bit of bribing:



"NVidia Geforce 4 Ti series" - LOL, they don't even seem to be aware of the fact that there are many different companies producing these cards with very varying display qualities... D'oh!


EDIT: Oh, and the G450 and the G550 are not listed - maybe those are missing the banding that's required to get the award

[thop]

They probably didn't get one sample board, but 50 to equip the whole company and their family. Like it happens all so often

[3dfx]

Because the G400 MAX had a better DAC than the G450 and 550 it was 360 hz

[Tempest]

Originally posted by 3dfx
Because the G400 MAX had a better DAC than the G450 and 550 it was 360 hz

Beep.

Both the G450 and G550 have 360 MHz primary RAMDACs. G400 vanilla was the only exception at 300 MHz.
Secondary RAMDACs are: G400(MAX) 135 MHz, G450 and G550 230 MHz.

Edit: I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that In-the-Loop Newsletter

[GNEP]

"Professional PC Enthusiast" is what got me as the target me for the P-128... come on - either your a pro or your an enthusiast - or are they telling us that to buy the P we should enjoy our jobs? That must be why it sold so well...

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Tempest

Both the G450 and G550 have 360 MHz primary RAMDACs. G400 vanilla was the only exception at 300 MHz.
Secondary RAMDACs are: G400(MAX) 135 MHz, G450 and G550 230 MHz.

Exactly. And RamDAC speed has everything to do with the quality of the analog output... NOT!

[3dfx]

Well it must be because the G400 MAX , G450 and the G550 are basically the same core

[Indiana]

The Core still does not have much to do with the quality of the analog output, this is more depending on the board design and especially on the used RF filters.

And then to mention the "GF4 Ti series" makes it fully ridiculous. If they had added a specific GF4 manufacturer/card, yes. But "GF4 Ti series", ROFLMAO....

[Jon P. Inghram]

Matrox Dev Team: Oh no! We've discovered a flaw on the Parhelia that can potentally reduce the image quality even on the DVI output!
Matrox Marketing Team: According to our marketing research Matrox Inc. has historically produced cards with high image quality, you must be wrong!

[thop]

The (not so) funny thing about this is Jon: that's probably exactly how it was

[Yannick]

Originally posted by Indiana


Exactly. And RamDAC speed has everything to do with the quality of the analog output... NOT!

I agree. I've seen a G400Max driving a 345MHz display, and it started to show some letter ghosting on the higher frequencies/resolutions. Still good for that old a card, but it confirms that then analog circuits are very important, and that Matrox had reason to try and enhance it on recent products.

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

stop dissing the feature story. thanks.

[Dogbert]

No offense, buy why ?

[GNEP]

Sorry Soupy - but more seriously are we likely to get any comment on the banding issues?