2D: Matrox contenders?

[andyrossmeissl]

Hi there-

My video card crapped out on me recently, so its time for a new one. I've got have a high-performance card because I have the Sony GDM-FW900, but I don't ever use the 3D features of the newer fancy cards. I've heard that Matrox is the way to go for high-performance 2D (I'm looking at the P650) . . . are there others I should consider?

TIA,
Andy

 

[Corporate Thug]

matrox is top dawg in 2d

welcome to the fourms

 

[andyrossmeissl]

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: shady06
matrox is top dawg in 2d

welcome to the fourms

 

[aircooled]

Yes Matrox tops 2D. Next in line would be ATI....

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Yes Matrox tops 2D. Next in line would be ATI....

Built by ATI, and some Powered by ATI cards have good IQ (Sapphire builds some built-by-ATI cards, so theirs should be fine, but some of the cheaper powered-by-ATI cards use low quality components and suffer from freaking terrible 2D image quality - such as my ancient no-name Radeon VE knock off). I haven't had extensive experience with Matrox cards, but am thinking about getting a P650 if they ever become available.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: shady06
matrox is top dawg in 2d

***confirmed***

Mmm, fresh no0b.

- M4H

 

[AmdInside]

I have both ATI and NVIDIA. To me, ATI looks sharper but NVIDIA looks more vibrant.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: AmdInside
I have both ATI and NVIDIA. To me, ATI looks sharper but NVIDIA looks more vibrant.

Thats cos nVidia cards have "Digital Vibrence". Which ATIs cards also do, but you have to edit the setting yourself.

 

[MrPabulum]

From my experience (at res. 12x10 and 16 x 12), ATI does it best, followed by Nvidia. Though I should also say that the G4s 2d quality impressed me. Nvidia has come a long way since the original Geforce 256.

 

[Schadenfroh]

from my experiance, we have nvidia/3dfx/matrox cards at home and we hav a 8500 at school. I can not tell the differance between the asus geforce4 TI 2D and the 8500. The matrox card 2D is better than both and my voodoo3 suprisingly is almost as good as the matrox.