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- niradg, on 11/10/2009, -0/+54this is perfect the workstation i'm building in my hollowed-out volcano
- AndrewDB, on 11/11/2009, -0/+25Digg? I have far, far greater uses for 16 screens.
- laofmoonster, on 11/11/2009, -2/+26But will it play Crysis?
(Seriously, will it? I heard workstation graphics cards are different from gaming graphics cards.) - tdmeth, on 11/11/2009, -1/+16Porn?
- inactive, on 11/11/2009, -0/+13No but you can MAKE Crysis with them!
- DevilToo, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10Until a month ago I had an old Matrox card in my work computer. Needless to say they don't upgrade the computers here very often.
- akabigbro, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8Digg for Linux support.
- JustinNoland, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9This is me, having an orgasm. I've run triple displays for quite some time now at home, and dualies at work. Something like that would be amazing (not that my broke ass could ever afford it).
- bringitontimx, on 11/11/2009, -4/+11Don't expect any speed with anything accelerated.
2GB of memory? This thing oughta have something more along the lines of 24 or 32GB of VRAM with so many displays. - TnTBass, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7Workstation cards are generally not geared to be great at 3d gaming.
It might play it, but you'd be better off spending $700 on a high end gaming card. These workstation cards also come at a much higher price tag, so you would likely be paying more for inferior 3d gaming performance. - musntSurfatWork, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6I live 5 minutes from Matrox Canada, and since they quit the 3D scene some 10 years ago, I always wonder what they market and produce so well, that they have over 50 parked cars in their parking lot every day of the week as I drive by on my way to work.
The Matrox Mystique was a sweet card back in the day when DirectX 3.0 was out. Matrox always had stellar 2D desktop RAMDAC quality that NVIDIA and ATI both neglected in favor of pumping out 3D frames instead. - frepnog, on 11/11/2009, -1/+6suprising, since the nvidia FX cores were absolute ***** for gaming.
- Lynxpro, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Wow, I didn't think I'd ever find anyone online romanticizing the Matrox Mystique, which was better known online as the "Matrox Mistake". Back then, you were the ***** if you had a Matrox Millennium 2D card with 4MB of WRAM coupled with a Diamond 3Dfx Voodoo 3D card.
- OliE420, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3WANT ! but can't afford... :'(
- Propethic, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3Ah I remember those days of having 2 video cards in my computer, one for 2d the other for 3d
- zip000, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3I've got a workstation graphics card in my office computer. The guy that had the computer before me ran his own department and I guess had nothing better to spend money on, so it is a ridiculous card for anyone in higher ed to have...an nvidia quadro fx 5600.
It does games just fine. I haven't played Crysis, but it handles the few games I've played on it at top settings and high frame rates. - MacBookForMe, on 11/10/2009, -5/+7Wow, could you imagine running Digg on those 16 screens? That could cover most upcoming topics...
- OnAsideNote, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2I'm still running my Parhelia
But it is time to upgrade . . . .thinkin the 5950 - christianboutin, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2"Returns"? They weren't gone, and they're not going anywhere they've been before with that. They're not "returning" anywhere with that. Silly silly title.
- defendliberty, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2I had a Matrox card for 3d once. It boasted the best quality although, slower speeds.. Something g200, something 200. w/e around 98
- bobburn1, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2..the prices were listed in the article.
- TrendyTim, on 11/11/2009, -0/+28or so years ago I went to a swap meet (lots of computer shops setup stalls so you can visit lots of them at once and you get good deals, eventually got shutdown because of all the pirated DVDs being sold), i had a choice $250 for a 24" HP CRT or a Matrox G450 (the only dual head vid card i knew of) so i bought the G450 and i still use it to this day on my 5 y/o custom built P4 box. Man i really need to upgrade.
- diemunkiesdie, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2I'd rather have just one huge screen instead of multiple screens. The border in between the screens would be too distracting!
- tgc1, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Sounded like a 3DGameMan intro there for a second. (Rodney Reynolds)
- directedition, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Perhaps not with all the settings turned up, and certainly not spanned across eight displays.
- tenmenkilled, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1:drool:
- xenodata, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Those prices can't be right... the difference between the two cards according to the article is that one has 2 gigs of RAM while the other has just 1. But the difference is between $1995 & $295... I bet the lesser one is more like $1295.
- askantik, on 11/11/2009, -1/+2Damn, and I thought I had a lot at almost 4,000. But then you've been here 7 months longer than me :D
- Atario, on 11/18/2009, -0/+1OCTAL: of or pertaining to the number system with base 8, employing the numerals 0 through 7
OCTUPLE: having eight effective units or elements - fuzzynyanko, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1For me, I had an nVidia RIVA 128zx and a Voodoo. The Voodoo was nice when the RIVA didn't want to work, though I think it didn't have the VRAM the RIVA had
- barbapapa78, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1I had G400, on several machines it was great ( it even had two display outputs, which was one of the reasons I used it ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_G400 - zip000, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Naah. No sale.
I'm at least 1/4 way thinking of swapping it out with a regular graphics card when I leave - I'm the only one in the building that knows that the card is even in there.
I probably won't because I'm just too damned honest for my own good, but the thought has crossed my mind.
@frepnog, I can't attest that it is a stellar card for gaming, the only game I really play at work is TF2 on my lunch break, and it handles that fine...not that it is particularly resource intensive. - inactive, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Hmm would you selld me that Quadro FX 5600, could use it for after effects!
- defendliberty, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1on second thought, maybe it was a g400. I remember having to use a Direct 3d wrapper or something to play opengl games...
- ampdj89, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Workstation cards are not made for polygonal rendering for games but it would run otherwise.
- Hivetyrant, on 11/11/2009, -0/+0Yeah I just saw that /facepalm on my part
- gabn, on 11/11/2009, -2/+2Matrox have ***** Linux support there driver doesn't work on 64bit machines. and no compliz support...
- Hivetyrant, on 11/11/2009, -3/+2While their market isn't huge, their previous products (TripleHead2Go. etc) have been made redundant now that ATI 58xx cards can do single display across multiple screens so I guess they had no choice but to move into another market space.
Good on them though, while I would hate to know the price, one of these could be really cool (For some....) - AndrewDB, on 11/11/2009, -6/+1I'm running one monitor at 1920x1080 and another at 1920x1200, and they're fantastic when gaming.
I'd love this setup. - bigteebo, on 11/11/2009, -8/+2I remember their TV add-on card. It was a complete joke. Matrox. Wow, I haven't heard that name uttered in years.
- inactive, on 11/11/2009, -12/+1lol 6,000 comments..
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