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/ Adam Richardson

Matrox Launches Contest

Matrox Launches Contest lands in February 1999 as PC hardware makers keep pushing faster chips, cards, drivers, and gaming peripherals.

Matrox Launches Contest puts prizes, bragging rights, or a public challenge in front of players, and that is exactly the kind of noise the late-90s PC scene feeds on.

The names attached here include Matrox Graphics, Starting, Matrox Millennium G200s, Winners, and March 10. The hook is contest. The hard numbers include February 1st, 1999, March 1st, 1999, and March 10th, 1999.

The hardware race is getting mean now. Every new board, driver, chip, and oddball peripheral is trying to be the thing that makes your rig feel less old by next week.