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To: Plaz who wrote (13580)	6/30/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Marc	Respond to of 16960

Numbers are newsgroup search i think, but i'm not home so i will PM you the link when i get back home. Marc

To: Plaz who wrote (13580)	6/30/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Matrox G400 review is up at tom's hardware (boo, hiss). I'll summarize so you don't have to read it: pros: dual-head, environmental bump mapping, pretty fast at dx6 games (on par with TNT2/175 and V3/183), best performance at 1600x1200 of the bunch. cons: expensive($249), BAD OpenGL support (60% slower than V3), 32bit Z-buffer problems in openGL. The best thing about the whole review though: the graphs indicate V3 beating the TNT2/175 in Q2 crusher demo. Tom must have forgotten to do his selective tweaking against 3dfx this time! Tom is such a loser. He can't even be consistently biased... 3dfx take note: environmental bump mapping and dual-head are cool. Get it. My take: it has some nice features, but it's just now matching V3 and TNT2 in speed. And by sucking at quake (openGL) they've alienated a large core of their market. Does anyone know if this is actually shipping? Plaz