Matrox G400max

[Ty75]

I am in the process of purchasing a new motherboard. When that will work with Photoshop 6 and Raptor(DV Capture Card). I found the Gigabyte GA-8IDX3. THe motherboard manuel state to use only a AGP card that is 4x with 1.5volts. Is the Matrox Mellennium G400max that type of card? I checked the G400 manuel and it supports 2x/4x. I would like to use the G400 since I wuld not have to purchase a new card. Any ideas?

 

[sohcrates]

AGP 4x is pretty standard...i see no problems with you using any 4x agp card

Those g400's are great 2D cards

 

[Damascus]

The G400 is not a AGP4X card... well not some of them. For whatever
reason, only some of the G400 cards ended up being compatible with
AGP4X.

 

[sohcrates]

That's true...but i wouldn't worry about it

Non-AGP 4x cards will run fine in AGP 4x slots...they'll just be running slower

 

[Mitzi]

Some G400s are 4x and some are 2x. If you really want to know if your particular card is 4x you can either download Matrox Tweak Tool (544Kb) or post the serial number of your Matrox card in the Matrox support forum and the support team will tell you if it is 4x or 2x.

As far as I am aware the performance difference between running in 4x and running in 2x is minimal so I wouldn't really worry about it.

 

[Trashman]

Ty....I found this info off of Matrox's website, I was concerned myself with my G400MAX working with new motherboards that supported agp4 and 1.5V signaling only, as I am in the process of upgrading my system as well:
From Matrox:


<< Our cards, be it AGP4x (1.5V) or AGP2x (3.3V), have universal switches
which will allow these graphics boards to work on virtually all/most of the
new motherboards. However, if the motherboard calls for a 1.5V card ONLY to
be installed, only our G4x0 and later models will work on that motherboard as earlier cards do not have universal switches on our connectors. >>


Looks like we're both in good shape, so Good Luck with your new board.