ATI Radeon Dual Head

[whiplash]

http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products..._ve/index.html

Goodbye Matrox, waited too long for the G800 .

W.

[Himself]

Wowsers, ATi pricing in Canada has dropped quite a bit, almost on par with the US now.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by whiplash:
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products..._ve/index.html

Goodbye Matrox, waited too long for the G800 .
W.

If you've waited that long you should at least wait till monday if Matrox does announce the G800 on the Comdex.

But yes, the RadeonVE does look good.

[tuco]

well if ati is releasing a dualhead card as well, then microsoft can bloody well sort out win2k's multi monitor support.

[CollegeManMan]

Wait until February, when the card is actually released.

[Jutai]

you know you gotta love these companies and the names they come up with marketing the exact same feature trying to make it sound exclusive...
we all know Matrox started Multi-Monitor support (at least in it's current form) and named it "DUAL HEAD" pretty self explanetory "two heads" then comes nVidia and their "TWIN VIEW" which makes it sound like the image is the same on both...(whoops) now we read about ATI and thier multi monitor support and I see the word "HYDRA VISION" thrown around you gotta love it what's next? BI-View? Double Bubble? Second Screen? Siamese Sight?? I think it's hillarious!!
-chris k.

[fury]

Sooo..., where can I by one?

[frankymail]

Two thing about the Radeon VE:

- It will only be released in February 2001...
- I uses 64-bits DDR-SDRAM, just like the Millennium G450, and will perform about the same as the G450, except on the image (2D/3D) quality level. And you wondered how they could offer such a full-featured card for such a low price... there's the catch, there'a ALWAYS a catch (except with my little G800 darling...)

Fairwell little G400 friend, it has been a fun ride...(snif,snif)

Francis Beausejour
Frankymail@yahoo.com

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- Matrox Millennium G400 DH 32 MB O/C 175/233
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- Dual Quantum Fireball LM Plus 15 GB
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[RoGuE]

Goodbye Matrox, waited too long for the G800 .

W.

If you'd already used a regular Radeon I don't think you would be so keen to buy the Radeon VE.

[This message has been edited by RoGuE (edited 14 November 2000).]

[impact]

Radeon VE = Geforce MX

A cheaper variant, although I must say it's "triple head" looks promising...

[DGhost]

One thing i noticed from the webpage is that it never mentioned output configurations. it says it will have VGA, TV/VCR and DVI on them. I just wonder if it will have 2 VGA outputs or what.

Also, what speed is the ramdac?

[Brian R.]

In reality, I think the Hydravision concept predates all the G400 cards. We are using Appian Geronimo Pro cards here at my work and they support Dual Monitors with the Hydravision software. What's more, they are the only card avilable which supports dual monitors in Win95.

This Geronimo Pro card is quite old. The display quality is poor for CRT displays, but as good as any with TFT displays.

[Oracle]

ok 1 thing , well maybe 2

1) the radeon sd ram is supposed to go head to head wiv the geforcemx
2)the ve addition does not i repeat does not have a t&l engine (chrisma engine) and is targeted for the business area (same as the g450) apart from that it has all the same features asa normal radeon (e.g hyper z)

laterz

Oracle

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P3 600e @ 660 (6*110)
128mb 100mhz sdram
abit be6-2
Radeon 32ddr (biding time till the g800
voodoo 3 2000 pci (166)
soundblaster 16pci
4.3gb seagate udma 33
15.3 wd udma 66
creative modem blaster 56k ext
win 98
ie5
direct x 7.0a
pd 6.10beta
tgl 1.3
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[This message has been edited by Oracle (edited 14 November 2000).]