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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (12972)	11/19/2001 10:18:08 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Alan I replaced my ATI128 with a Matrox G450 about a month ago. This is a dual monitor AGP card. I paid $95 plus tax and shipping ($120 total). I chose Matrox because of the versatile software for multimonitor setup as well as for Matrox tech support. The G450 has done just what I wanted for dual monitor display and Matrox tech support has been most helpful. They maintain a public board on their website where you can get help from extremely capable tech people. Matrox says you can add more dual cards and have them managed by the Matrox software in the same way it manages two screens. My plan is to add a second Matrox card when I need more monitors. This will have to be a PCI card and it will also be under $100 it appears. Matrox does make a quad card but it is around $700. The G450 I am using is a 32 meg card, 16 megs per screen. FWIW, Matrox is rated very low in performance for 3D gaming compared to the Invidia et al, but it works admirably for charts, web pages, Mirc etc. best Rick