Matrox G400: Is it any good for capture.

[Lloyd_Chapman]

Question: how good does the Matrox g400 work for video capture under a pentium II 300 system with a large, fast hard drive.

P-2 300
Abit BH 6 MB
128MB PC_100
7200RPM 9GB Seagate

I have an ATI Rage FURY and a ATI TV-WONDER card, and want to ditch them if they will work properly under win98. Im tired of getting errors that cause me to loose capture..

ARGH!.

Lloyd Chapma
PiZZed off ATI Owner.

PS: THANK YOU LIGHTSPEED!

[coolfish]

read thru this forum, I think you'll get the idea.

[DrMordrid]

I ran my Marvel G400 on a Celeron 300a system (not o/c'ed) for about a week while rebuilding this one and it worked very nicly for capture & editing.

Where it was a bit weak was on DVD playback, but that was minor and shrinking the players window on the desktop fixed it. BTW: I was sending the DVD out to the Marvels preview monitor for viewing by way of DualHead.

The Marvel really shines on a C466 or C500 system though.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by DrMordrid (edited 07 January 2000).]

[This_Idiot]

Lloyd,

Read my review of the G400-TV and get the picture. It tells you the good bits and the bad bits, and was run on a PII 266 with 96Mhz RAM.

But definitely do yourself a big favour and buy a second HD specifically for AVI capture, it will make all the difference.

Chris