Dual Monitors! The Only Way!
Written: Apr 06 '00
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Pros: Dual Head
Cons: Good speed. Nough said...until you try it.
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| untung's Full Review: Matrox Millennium G400, (16 MB) AGP Video Card |
I use this card for 6 months as of today.
Well..well..well. If you want to use dual monitors setup, this videocard is the only way to go to reserve your IRQ/PCI slots for other peripherals.
You may ask me why I would like to have two monitors.........the answer is: 1 monitor of 24" costs over $1200 whereas 2 monitors of 19" costs below $800. And you get the same amount of pixels or workspace. And this is why I pick up this card to drive my 19" monitors at 1280x1024 at 90Hz and 75Hz.
Now, if you do interested with dual monitor setup, your next question is why I should pick up this monitor? Do you know that at this moment, the numbers of IRQ are not enough to support what you may need. And there are only a limited number of PCI slots available.
For example,
video, scsi, audio, modem/network, dvd encoder, tv-turner, etc.
(1 AGP and 5 PCI).
Imagine if you have to add another video card? Just to let you know, you can move the modem/network to ISA slot (that's what I do since my motherboard only has 4 PCI).
The other benefit of this card is the upgrade card...called Rainbow Runner G series for television use. There are many other company who makes same card.....Hawpauge or Pinnacle. But, as I can tell you...this RR-G is rocks....and very easy to install. It also allows me to make video presentation in Power Points. The dualhead also help me to output to VCR for recording as well.
For quality, it is excellent. For speed, it's not that fast (3D). I haven't used geForce CL. So, I can't really comment on the speed. But, if you have fast CPU (450mhz and above), this card is quite fast (not as fast as Geforce).
I would only pick up this card for dualhead use, for others, pick up other video cards......there are many choices out there. And if you do pick up this card, give yourself a help by picking up the 32mb.
Pros: DUAL HEAD!
Cons: Not as fast as GeForce.....but, who cares :-)
Recommended:
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