Matrox knows their biz
Written: Mar 07 '01
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Pros: Excellent graphics
Cons: Can be difficult to install
The Bottom Line: Go with Matrox or settle with substandard graphics.
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| badbunny's Full Review: Matrox Millennium G400, (16 MB) AGP Video Card |
I own a Matrox Millennium G400 Max with 32 megs of SGRM. I bought it to play Diablo II when it first came out.
I'm running a P3 with 330 megs of PC-133 ram and Windows 2000. I will have to say, my puter couldn't handle the Matrox with either Win98 SE or WinME. Perhaps it was also that and the amount of ram I have, but either way, it would crash on me with VMM errors.
For most people that can be solved by going into your BIOS and either turning up or turning down your AGP Aperture settings. I wrote a longer explaination a couple months ago on Matrox's forum site. I received many emails telling me that it solved their problems.
Anyway, I game, create graphics, am a webmaster, and basically live at my puter terminal for many hours each day. I won't settle for substandard hardware, and that's why I dumped the nVidia and went for Matrox.
I don't have 3D vision, but even I can tell the extreme visual differences that transpired the moment I set up my Matrox. Even to this non-binocular envisioned person, the screen jumped up. My teenage son went absolutely green with envy and threatened to hold my puter for ransom. =)
The color is so intense and the options you have for setting up the video interface to suit your needs is quite remarkable.
I'll be holding onto this card for some time to come. This Puter Junkie has no need to update the video aspect of my PC, but I sure am hoping they get the bugs out of P4's in the near future! And trust me, my Matrox will be slapped into that P4 box as well.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 190
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