Matrox Announces World's First Single-Slot PCIe x16 Octal Graphics Card

[Sly Fox]

The only gaming oriented card from Matrox I can recall is the Parhelia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_Parhelia

I remember wanting one for Flight Simulator, but it was sort of pointless when a GeForce 4 wiped the floor with it.

[zalbard]

Yeah, Parhelia was a flop, it really did look great on paper, though.

[trinibwoy]

Yep, the number of outputs and price are the deciding factors into why a company would go with Eyefinity over this. Reliability, reputation, support, software - none of that stuff matters at all

[IronWarrior]

Hmm, I wonder do you think you could install this card as well has have CF/SLI with ATI/Nvidia and have it all work at the same time, so you could game on one set of screens and have the others as whatever else?

[randomizer]

obviously a few people in here dont have a clue what matrox cards are used for - hint; its not gaming

Blasphemy. Nobody has a computer that isn't used solely for gaming.

Hmm, I wonder do you think you could install this card as well has have CF/SLI with ATI/Nvidia and have it all work at the same time, so you could game on one set of screens and have the others as whatever else?

Ask Lucid maybe

[Jokester_wild]

How many times on here have people posted about updating drivers from either nVidia or ATi and having blank screens on boot up, or other weird issues not in 3D, and they had to revert to older drivers.

Why would they be updating drivers if the system already worked. Ill give you a clue they wouldn't.

Sure an update from Nvidia/ATi could mess up, even though I can't say ive had one in the last four years. But the fact is they would have no reason to update after the initial installation.

[Tim]

The only gaming oriented card from Matrox I can recall is the Parhelia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_Parhelia

I remember wanting one for Flight Simulator, but it was sort of pointless when a GeForce 4 wiped the floor with it.

Before that several were made that you could play games with, maybe not marketed as a die hard gaming board, but definitely for games as well :

Impression Plus
Millennium MGA-2064W-R2
Mystique
Millenium II
Matrox M3D
Mystique 220
MGA G100
(MGA G200)
MGA G400
(MGA G450)
(MGA G550)

[KoHaN69]

Wouldn't a matrox card be the same prize as a 5970?
What can matrox do that eyefinity can't?

[lkiller123]

hmmm i wonder if eyefinity will stomp on matrox' professional segment share though....
ati had multi display professional cards for a while, and now that eyefinity is out, they will probably even have a dual rv840 card with 12 display outs on a single card... they had a dual gpu 8 display gpu card before iirc...

Bear in mind that the Eyefinity drains way more power and might not be as stable as the Matrox in terms of professional, industrial use

[[XC] Lead Head]

Why would they be updating drivers if the system already worked. Ill give you a clue they wouldn't.

Sure an update from Nvidia/ATi could mess up, even though I can't say ive had one in the last four years. But the fact is they would have no reason to update after the initial installation.

The same reason why anyone does an update. To increase performance, add new features or perhaps even increase stability. IT departments at large facilities like to push updates to the computers as little as possible, and therefore wrap as many things they can into one update - including driver updates, to insure maximum system reliability and stability.

[tool_462]

What can matrox do that eyefinity can't?

Question addressed in about 12 posts in this short thread

[Sparky]

How many times on here have people posted about updating drivers from either nVidia or ATi and having blank screens on boot up, or other weird issues not in 3D, and they had to revert to older drivers.

honestly, I haven't had that in years

[Mungri]

I can understand where these cards would be better suited.

In 2d mode, my 5770s powerplay options are borked. The whole screen occasionally artifacts and locks up until the driver recovers.

The cause of this? The default 1.00v setting is pants and doesnt provide stability for 2d mode, to fix it I need to keep Afterburner open with the voltage locked at its default 1.125v and then it is fine.

I never have any problems at all in 3d mode with them, but in 2d they keep on crashing at stock settings.

[RADCOM]

100% dependable I always keep a pci matrox spare in my top draw