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You might want to check out www.luckydog.com to get cheap phone service to Canada
(or Great Britain) (10 cents a min).
Sigstroker@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 7/16/99 7:39:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, captech@xxxxxxxx
> writes:
>
> > Just for everyone's info ( I know there have been posts on this in the
> > past ), a new video card just came out which frankly, is spectacular.
> Well,
> > when I say spectacular I'm referring primarily to my interest in it
> > supporting OpenGL as I do 3d graphics and a couple games (okay, I admitted
> > it).
> >
> > It is the new Matrox G400 (32mg RAM).......(snip)
> >
> >
> > yea Joe it's a great card if you can get your hands on it. I have had
> 4
> > bids at the Matrox online store since the first of July for the G400-max
> > version......waiting,
> > the eta for the retail version at online stores is not certain yet for the
> > max. It should be worth the wait. People are beginning to receive the G400
> > version that they ordered in the middle of June so we may be next. No
> > production problems just new product demand.
> >
> >
>
> > -=-jimmy-=-
>
> The other thing to be wary of is Matrox has about the worst customer service
> that I've encountered (and I'm a former BMI customer!). Calls to tech support
> are on your dime, to Canada. You cannot get warranty service until their tech
> support is satisfied you have it set up correctly. Each call will be a
> minimum $40 from the U.S. so it won't take many calls before you've spent the
> cost of a new board. I'll probably try one of the boards when (if?) they ever
> get to the stores, but only one that has a very good return policy, so the
> store takes on some of the risk.
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