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Posted: September 15, 1999 Written by: David "Spunk" Grampa Estimated retail price: $199.99 The Other Stuff The Matrox G400 comes packed with all the features that you will learn to love and appreciate in future games and 3D applications. The extras that are unique to the G400 at this time include Environment Mapped Bump-Mapping, and DualHead Technology- as mentioned earlier. Another is Matrox's Vibrant Color Quality2, which has been adopted straight from Matrox and their MGA-G200. This adds extra precise alpha-blending units in 32-bit multi-textured 3D textures. The use is defined right in the name, colors appear more 'vibrant' and beautiful. Other nice stuff include support for stencil buffering, anisotropic and trilinear filtering, anti-aliased vectors, vertex and table fogging, and 32-bit Z-buffer. All this thrown into one makes the G400 the best all-around board in terms of performance, price, and features that will matter most in today's, and tomorrow's games. Conclusion After looking into all the wonderful features, and comparing this board to its competitors... It becomes clear that this is the #1 choice of 3D accelerators out today. It is the most well balanced of all opposition in terms of speed, quality, and features. Although out-performed from a frames per second standpoint, anyone willing to give up realistic visual quality for an extra 10-15fps should go with a TNT2 or Voodoo3. However, to be as straight forward as possible, with the recent official announcement of nVidia's GeForce 256 and S3's Savage 2000, it may become questionable whether to buy this product now. If you are willing to wait 1-2 months with your current graphics accelerator, then I would make the effort. Then again, if having the best in 1-2 months is not your concern, and you are anxious to get the best now- then the G400 or G400 Max is your #1 bet. Being a person that has the luxury of choice between many different top-notch graphics accelerators, I picked the G400 to keep in my system, and it will stay there for quite some time. To all of you limited to one choice, might as well make it your best. And how else than with a Matrox Millennium G400? Pros [+]
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