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FREE AGP video card?!?!

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Originally posted by: Perknose
I'm really surprised at the old heads here who don't seem to know that this card STILL has about the BEST 2D QUALITY of any card on the market.

The DualHead dual monitor support is feature rich AND works flawlessly AND you can readily get DVI adaptors on ebay and run two sweet DVI monitors @ 1600 x 1200 simultaneously, all with just 16 mb.

This card is worth every penny . . . in this case, almost literally. 😉
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i was unaware that they made vga --> dvi adapters. if they do make such things, it's probably only a vga signal through a dvi connector (dvi-i), and not a digital signal.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Perknose
I'm really surprised at the old heads here who don't seem to know that this card STILL has about the BEST 2D QUALITY of any card on the market.

The DualHead dual monitor support is feature rich AND works flawlessly AND you can readily get DVI adaptors on ebay and run two sweet DVI monitors @ 1600 x 1200 simultaneously, all with just 16 mb.

This card is worth every penny . . . in this case, almost literally. 😉
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i was unaware that they made vga --> dvi adapters. if they do make such things, it's probably only a vga signal through a dvi connector (dvi-i), and not a digital signal.
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QFT

 
This is a really nice 2D card. I am amazed it is this cheap. I had a tear in my eye years ago when my old matrox died, its clarity was great. NO GAMES if you haven't figured it out by now. I have to get one of these, I agree its versitility on non gaming systems is worth the money. If it's as good as my old matrox it may be better than my old Gforce 3 in my "internet - microsoft office - spare" computer for this. If not, it's a nice setup debug card that would work on any agp system.
 
This card should be great for 2d. It wont get fuzzy signal issues like the super-buget nvidia/ati cards that put all of the money into their bare minimum 3d support and leave 2d out to dry (and 2d is still somewhat important...have you ever gotten a winxp system running at a high resolution with a stock driver? Windows drag like garbage and everything feels terrible...yup...thats 2d right there).

I have a millenium II from an old IBM workstation (that after a lot of effort to modify and update to dual PIIIs has completely died on me) and it certainly was a beautiful card. Had some features that were pretty sweet at the time (and are still not offered on modern 3d cards).

Great buy
 
Originally posted by: esquared
It also says it's compatible with 8X. I didn't know a 4X/8X card would be backward compatible to 1X/2X because of the 3.3 V. Is this true? If it is, it is a very useful card, good on any sort of AGP board.

From the Specs on the website.
Card type: AGP 4x, compatible with all AGP slots (0.8, 1.5, or 3.3 V)
AGP card compatible with all AGP slots (AGP 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x)

edit:
I am still confused a little. This is from Anandtech
AGP 1.0 compliant is 1X/2X at 3.3 volt
AGP 2.0 is 4X at 1.5 V and supposedly backward compatible with AGP 1.0
AGP 3.0 is 8X at 0.8V and supposedly backward compatible to 4X, if it states it is an 8X/4X card.

I've just never heard of a card that can be used on 1X through 8X.

Edit:
I just looked at the Matrox manual for this card here
The card is 4x/2X and I guess that also means it should work on a 1X board (AGP 1.0)
The TD specs are a mistake claiming 1x through 8X.
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Never mind...doh, just read the description more thoroughly😉

Thanks,

Bud
 
Originally posted by: gibster
6.99 shipping kills it 😉
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So $6.99 for the best 2D video card on the market (with some 3D capability, mind you, just not much) is too much for a workstation? Oh please...

bb
 
ok, i understand lack of 3d but what about:

1. MAME emulator games and N64 emulator games
2. DVD
3. Divx and Xvids
4. TV with separate tv tuner

will it have issues with these applications?
 
So anybody goten theirs?

Edit: by the way have you guys noticed the 90-day warranty on the bottom of the page? Seems to be refurb G450 to me. Still a great deal though. I have one in my dad's computer and it does exactly as advertised.
 
$7 shipping and a TD Rebate, come on OP update your thread title!

Hot deal anyway... I don't know if I want one. It's tempting... thread marked for later
 
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