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bpat...@pcs.cnu.edu (Blake Patterson) wrote:



>	It is $50 less than the Matrox Millenium which has 4mb WRAM,
>MPEG decoding hardware, 3D acceleration, and is the 2nd fastest gfx
>board in existance for the PC (the ~ $800 Imagine 128 is the only one
>faster -- and the Matrox is WWAAAYYY faster in DOS than the Imagine is).
>It would be idiotic to consider the CL 3D board when the Matrox can
>be had.  ...if you can ever find it in stock.

No, it wouldn't.  The 3D hardware on the Matrox doesn't even come
close, it is _far_ inferior to the Glint.  Glint will have the
support- so will the Millenium through 3D DDI in '95, but it simply is
not meant for real-time games.  It does not have hardware assisted
texture mapping, for one.

And for $400, the Matrox has 4mb?  Wah?  The Matrox is around $350
with 2 megs, which is what it comes with.  It can be upgraded to 4,
but I think the 4 meg model is quite a bit more expensive.

And the Millenium does _not_ have MPEG decoding hardware.  It has
hardware-assisted "video acceleration" that can help out in displaying
AVI and MPG files through Windows, but you certainly will not get the
full-screen quality, especially from the low-data rate of CD-ROM MPEG
titles of say a Reelmagic.  Matrox makes a true MPEG hardware add-on
for that reason.