-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 4, 2001 03:01 pm, tleck@mindspring.com wrote:
Can anyone suggest my next card which will have the least problems. Perhaps another Matrox product. I'm not looking the the fasted/cutting edge but something with 3D which will work without bugs. Does such a thing exist?
A lot of people are having a lot of success with the Nvidia cards. I am determined to stick with Matrox for a number of reasons: 1) Support is awesome. My first Matrox was a used 2Meg Mystique. I put in a support request on their web form and got a human answer that completely solved my problem within 30 minutes. Nowadays they have a completely open support forum where everyone gets their questions answered. There is a Linux portion that is regularly (every day) handled by one of their support techs (Ben) 2) Linux support is great. They publish just about everything, allowing open source drivers to be written. In the past while, they've paid Precision Insight to develop drivers and they release new driver versions every two months or so for the Gxxx series cards. They give out the source to everything they can and keep the closed stuff they licensed in a separate mga_hal.so 3) Cheap. The cards are much cheaper nowadays. I bought my Dualhead G450 with 32Mb RAM for about CAN$200 (~US$133). I don't mind upgrading every couple of years for those prices The 3D performance doesn't come close to Nvidia but I feel better with a card of higher quality (who made *your* Nvidia card?) from a company that is used to extreme high-end stuff. Ever see a Matrox Meteor? I used to have one at a former employer. We were analysing fish with one. Another went to the Canadian Space Agency for the new Canadarm. The 2D performance is also of the highest quality on the market. Needless to say, I'm happy with my Matrox. I have to turn down the settings for SoF on my K6/400 but I don't mind. The only thing that bugs me is the lack of a mobile Matrox chipset. I have a crappy S3 in my laptop. Ugh. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7G9YA+FOexA3koIgRApybAJ9FFVEheJQtrlgeHuH9MZi1tQXRKACfTaJJ Sp1/mKws3vf9x530wnV2wj8= =pL9W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----