Discussion Matrox C680 review

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For what it is, I think it has a cool factor. Neat that it provides such consistent frame pacing even if the FPS is crazy low.

 

[psolord]

Based on Cape Verde. So it's an AMD gpu essentially. I was like wtf.

512cores GCN 1.0, with 4 GBs. Ok not bad for the price I guess.

I wonder if the hybrid drivers from Guru3d would work.

 

[Sgraffite]

That's pretty neat. They're like 8 years old at this point it looks like. Would be good for a low power PC.

 

[Sgraffite]

I ordered a C420 off Ebay to play with. It's a lower end model with less outputs and is passively cooled. The same channel also did a review on it:

 

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Yes I have watched that. I may add one to my collection too.

EDIT: Did the seller have more?

 

[Sgraffite]

Yes I have watched that. I may add one to my collection too.

EDIT: Did the seller have more?

Ya, says more than 10 available. I got two, $40 each by making an offer.

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[DZero]

Wait, so Matrox is back or what happened?

 

[Sgraffite]

Wait, so Matrox is back or what happened?

They never really fully left, just been hiding on the sidelines. They don't make their own chips anymore. It sounds like they make the boards and the drivers though.

 

[DZero]

They never really fully left, just been hiding on the sidelines. They don't make their own chips anymore. It sounds like they make the boards and the drivers though.

So they are more like Asus or Gigabyte?

 

[Steltek]

So they are more like Asus or Gigabyte?

They branched off into other businesses. Current product lines are here.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

They have solutions with AMD, Nvidia, and ARC. I like it.

 

[Sgraffite]

Installed the Matrox C420 into this NUC

 

[DaaQ]

My very first graphics accelerator was a Matrox Millennium.

 

[Sgraffite]

I had a Mystique 220, decided to save money versus the more expensive Millenium at the time. Turns out the Mystique sucked and the Millenium was awesome.

I just ran Minecraft on the C420, it was getting high 30s+ framerate and consistent frame times, so definitely playable. I also tried Diablo 4 but it crashes on startup.

 

[Golgatha]

I had a Mystique 220, decided to save money versus the more expensive Millenium at the time. Turns out the Mystique sucked and the Millenium was awesome.

I just ran Minecraft on the C420, it was getting high 30s+ framerate and consistent frame times, so definitely playable. I also tried Diablo 4 but it crashes on startup.

I had to look up pictures of different hardware revisions, but I came to the conclusion I had the RevA Matrox card with a Creative Labs Voodoo 2 8MB. The rest of the computer was a Pentium 2 400Mhz with 160MB of PC100 SDRAM.

 

[Muadib]

My very first graphics accelerator was a Matrox Millennium.

I had one too! It wasn't my first though.

 

[DaaQ]

I had a Mystique 220, decided to save money versus the more expensive Millenium at the time. Turns out the Mystique sucked and the Millenium was awesome.

I just ran Minecraft on the C420, it was getting high 30s+ framerate and consistent frame times, so definitely playable. I also tried Diablo 4 but it crashes on startup.

I ran Diablo4 on GTX 780 at better than ps4 frames and quality =)

But yea that Matrox card was in a Dell, 266Mhz Pentium with MMX technology !! lol It did play Diablo 1 great. No lie.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Some more old school Matrox cards. I don't think Anand reviewed these 2?