22 Jun
2006
22 Jun
'06
12:48 a.m.
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 02:17 +0000, carmen wrote:
I'd chalk that up to the weird DVI thingy. My G400 has (had, at least)
the best analog output quality of any card I compared it against (3dfx,
ati, nvidia offerings at the time)
They might be "obsolete", but if there were free drivers for it, I would
probably be the proud new owner of a dual DVI G*** right now.
-DR-
Theres a typo
there though: "Matrox 400+500" is supposed to
be "Matrox 450+550". I'm afraid of those cards. They
made my machines behave strangely, hanging, lots of cpu use.
i had one of these in 2001, driving a dual setup. there were ghosts of
the second screen on the first. and oddly, it was a ghost of the VGA
screen on the DVI screen (at the time, the cards didnt have DVI, but
they had this addon bridge thing which was unshielded pins to another
connector on a second pci slot). the bottom line is, the signal
quality was questionable, and the cards are massively obsolete.