Matrox G100 Quad Monitor PCI Video Card, used $108.98

[sleefer]

For anyone that might need such an animal, here you go...linky
Edit: They also have one with a tv tuner, $138.98...here
Or an STB MVP Workstation Quad PCI, $94.99 here

 

[tsee]

G100? Quad Monitor?

 

[sleefer]

Yep, 4 G-100 processors on the card!

 

[takhyon]

Good find. You better have plenty of space for the STB or the TV Tuner Matrox.

 

[Jugernot]

The G100 was a great lowend chipset once upon a time. It kicked the ass of any of the S3 Virge Series chipset , which were very good at 2D graphics.

Seems like a deal for anyone would requires "NO" 3d or DVD acceleration.

Jugs

 

[Xidus]

Hey if it's PCI wouldn't it make a great secondary video card? You could have 5 monitors going with an AGP video card in. But holy crap make sure you have enough space in your case that is one long card

 

[Hgabriel]

Wow, these are very tempting. We sure could use these at work.

 

[ohrock]

Interesting deal!

Does anybody know if you can play DvDs or TV across monitors in a multi-monitor configuration?

Thanks!

OhRock

 

[RDMustang1]

Originally posted by: ohrock
Interesting deal!

Does anybody know if you can play DvDs or TV across monitors in a multi-monitor configuration?

Thanks!

OhRock

If you run at a the same resolution (rather than seperate resolutions you can, but this also means your start bar and any program you maximize will run across all monitors).

You can also run the 4 monitors in a square confirguration to make for better viewing (kinda like best buy does with all those tvs on their back walls)...

I run 2 Matrox G450's in my main system for quad monitors and I love it!

 

[sleefer]

Did some checking on the Matrox site. They have drivers for 98, NT4, 2K, and XP for Productiva G100 cards. No ME or Linux drivers.

 

[Wango]

I have a later version of this, the G200 Quad MMS.

If you buy the card with the TV tuner onboard, you can only watch TV with the displays hooked up to the card. A separate TV tuner can display on any of the displays, as with DVDs. You can't do that with the Dualhead cards though, since they only support video overlay on the primary head.