What's the deal with Matrox?

[CTrainBEB]

Every time I browse through one of the threads about multi-monitors matrox cards are always talked very highly of. I've looked at the specs of some of the cards and personally i'm not too impressed, what's the deal?

 

[CheesePoofs]

Matrox is known for having the best 2D quality and multi-monitor support of any cards out there. They aren't good at anything 3D though.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
Matrox is known for having the best 2D quality and multi-monitor support of any cards out there. They aren't good at gaming 3D though.

Fixed. With the exception of the G400MAX, which was The gaming card for a very short time. No contest on the 2D and multimonitor though. Matrox > *.

- M4H

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
Matrox is known for having the best 2D quality and multi-monitor support of any cards out there. They aren't good at gaming 3D though.

Fixed. With the exception of the G400MAX, which was The gaming card for a very short time. No contest on the 2D and multimonitor though. Matrox > *.

- M4H

I couldn't get the G400MAX, but I did get a dualhead G400 32MB card. It's still in use.

 

[mindwreck]

really good 2d. I have my g400 on another comp just for dual monitors

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
Matrox was known for having the best 2D quality and multi-monitor support of any cards out there. They aren't good at gaming 3D though.

Fixed. With the exception of the G400MAX, which was The gaming card for a very short time. No contest on the 2D and multimonitor though. Matrox > *.

- M4H

Fixed again. With DVI, Matrox really doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore; the quality is going to be the same among all cards and the only difference is features. Even with RGB the quality on gaming cards has improved so much in the last 5 years that Matrox's cards aren't necessary except for those people who need to use CRTs for quality reasons in the first place(insert arguement about better color representation on CRTs here).

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
Matrox is known for having the best 2D quality and multi-monitor support of any cards out there. They aren't good at gaming 3D though.

Fixed. With the exception of the G400MAX, which was The gaming card for a very short time. No contest on the 2D and multimonitor though. Matrox > *.

- M4H

Fixed again. With DVI, Matrox really doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore; the quality is going to be the same among all cards and the only difference is features. Even with RGB the quality on gaming cards has improved so much in the last 5 years that Matrox's cards aren't necessary except for those people who need to use CRTs for quality reasons in the first place(insert arguement about better color representation on CRTs here).

Fixed again. Try running 1920x1200 through DVI on a card where the manufacturer doesn't care about keeping a 162MHz transmitter signal and accepts a nice low ~151 or ~140 for pixel-crawling goodness.

And I maintain that no one can touch Matrox's multimonitor prowess. Period.

- M4H