First PCI-Express 1X video card from Matrox.

[Jeff7181]

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Awesome... hopefully the 2D quality is typical Matrox quality. The $140 price tag is a bit steep though for a 32 MB card that might as well not have ANY 3D capabilities.

 

[cbehnken]

bada$$, been waiting for this..

 

[Jeff7181]

I can see this definately finding a home in a SFF PC. Passively cooled, very small PCB.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Awesome - a 2 DVI card for any PCI-e slot. Quite the flexible solution for a good multi-monitor setup. The only problem is that that price tag is about 3 times too high... Would be nice if it was <$40, though!

 

[Peter]

Nice as a secondary ... from the picture, they took their old G550 GPU and put a PCIE-to-PCI bridge chip in front of it (the TI XIO2000 chip).

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Awesome - a 2 DVI card for any PCI-e slot. Quite the flexible solution for a good multi-monitor setup. The only problem is that that price tag is about 3 times too high... Would be nice if it was <$40, though!

well, that's what you would expect form MATROX. Smaller ocmpanies charge more. Though wonder if it has Surround capability like the Pharnelia(3 monitor setup on 1 card)

 

[Munky]

Cool. Now I can play pong with amazing 2d quality on dual lcd's.

 

[xalar]

I'm confused, why would anyone be excited about this card, much less spend $140 on it?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: xalar
I'm confused, why would anyone be excited about this card, much less spend $140 on it?

Matrox is renowned for their outstanding 2D quality and multimonitor support. They're targeting a completely different market than the usual gamer demographic.

I'd like to see if they've got driver support coming for "stuff a half-dozen of these in one box and use it as a big 4x3 array of screens"

- M4H

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: xalar
I'm confused, why would anyone be excited about this card, much less spend $140 on it?

Somewhat niche market, but what if you want to use a computer to display several outputs, say 6-8 screens from one computer. This is a way to do that with PCI-e.

At work we have a piece of equipment that displays graphs of the key process inputs on screens at the console ("control center" if you will). There is one computer that connects to the database and displays the digital I/O data on graphcs on 8 screens. A product like this is going to be necessary once PCI is gone completely.

Current Matrox cards are generally not bought by consumers anyway. I doubt the high price will hurt the card much in it's target market.

 

[Peter]

Good marketing effort to let the "impeccable 2D" image persist even in the days of DVI, which is inherently a completely loss-less way of transmitting the display image, pixel for pixel.

I've been screwed by Matrox driver issues once too often, so no thanks. Actually, twice too often, but that's another story.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: xalar
I'm confused, why would anyone be excited about this card, much less spend $140 on it?

Give it time and it'll drop a bit to say, $100. Matrox cards have always carried a premium price tag.

Originally posted by: Peter
Good marketing effort to let the "impeccable 2D" image persist even in the days of DVI, which is inherently a completely loss-less way of transmitting the display image, pixel for pixel.

I've been screwed by Matrox driver issues once too often, so no thanks. Actually, twice too often, but that's another story.

What about when you use a DVI>VGA adapter? DVI doesn't do anything for the analog signal.

 

[Ornette]

Does it lack TV-out like the P650 PCIe ?


http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?t=52460

 

[Avalon]

That thing is very tiny! I guess it would be useful for multimonitor support (more than 2), because you can slap multiple cards into your system due to it being x1 PCI-e. Most PCI-e systems have a few x1 slots.

I still wish Matrox would put out a gaming series of cards, so we'd have more competition in the 3D gaming market.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Avalon
That thing is very tiny! I guess it would be useful for multimonitor support (more than 2), because you can slap multiple cards into your system due to it being x1 PCI-e. Most PCI-e systems have a few x1 slots.

I still wish Matrox would put out a gaming series of cards, so we'd have more competition in the 3D gaming market.

they dont have the resources to make a gamer card.