Please Recommend to me...

[moreau]

We will be building a couple of new systems here at work. These will be for WORK only, so gaming isn't a consideration.

I'm inclined to purchase the newest Matrox card available, namely the g550. Is there any reason to consider the G450 AGP over the G550?

Secondly, I'll be building a machine later for Data acquisition and analysis, and am considering a Serverworks based SuperMicro board. I'm inclined to use the G450 PCI for this machine.

Normally, I might be swayed toward G450 all the way around, but with the unified driver situation, it isn't really an issue.

But, I still wanted to run this Q past the gurus here.

Thanks,
Charles Moreau
Albion College
Department of Physics

[Guru]

The G450 is a bit cheaper then the G550 and the G550 is still not available in stores (Not over here atleast)!

[Stringy]

what kind of 2D work will these machine's be doing?
Will these "business" machines's be utilizing Matrox's DualHead?
If not, I'd say the G450 would be fine...
If you are, and these machines have reasonably large displays, <19" I'd definitely concider the extra performance of the G550...



Craig

[Topha]

support M and get those g550's

maybe they will thank you by supporting the g550 a little while longer than the g450

and while youre at it, get amd cpus with a sis-chipset mainboard, you can get higher quality components that way, since you save quite a lot of money on cpu/mobo

[moreau]

thanks for the responses.

I did forget to mention that Dualhead is the leading reason to stay with matrox. They've really got the angle on dual monitor support in Win2K.

The office machines will be doing mostly office aps with an occasional Origin (data analysis/graphing) session, LaTeX, Photoshop etc.

What is the max refresh/ res on the second monitor on the G450? is that limited? I know on my G400 at home the second head is limited to 1280x1024. I thought the G450 changed that. True/Not True?

Thanks again,
Charles

[Topha]

1600*1200 for the secondary display on the g550 (http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/t.../chip_spec.pdf), didnt find tha max res for the g450 2nd display there, but i admit i didnt look very long

[DentyCracker]

G550 is $105 at www.mwave.com
Don't buy them all off I'm seriously considering getting one