What does DH mean in Matrox DH G400?

[Pure3D]

What does DH mean in Matrox DH G400?
Like what does that "DH" mean?
Thanks!

Also, the Matrox G400 is only a Millenium right? There's really no such thing as a Matrox Mystique G400 right? or is there? Or is there no such thing as a Millenium G400? Because I'm getting a OEM Matrox G400 16MB AGP...that's what it says...doesn't say anything about being millenium or mystique.

Also...my motherboard does not support up to 256MB AGP Aperture Size. The maximum is 128M in the BIOS. Is this going to be a problem? I have a Matsonic MS-7192SM (up to Pentium3 600MHz or Celeron 555MHz)..it can support Slot1 and Socket370 at the same time. 4 PCI, 2 ISA, and 1 AGP (can be tweaked to 2X in BIOS)

thanks!

[Aplek]

DH means Dual Head display. That means the card will have 2 video output. There are games such as Flight Simulator 2000 that supports 2 monitor setup. Also .....
There's only 3 different kinds of G400 out there: G400 (regular), G400 MAX, and the Marvel G400 (?). There's G400 single display, G400 16 meg, G400 DH 16, & G400 32meg DH.

[Pure3D]

But how come matrox only shows 4 different types of G400's?

Matrox only shows these:

-Millenium G400 Series (16megabyte version)
-Millenium G400 Series (32megabyte version)
-Millenium G400 Max (not sure how many RAM)
-Marvel G400-TV (16megabyte version)


So do all of them support Dual Head display? or is the G400 Series (16megabyte) the only one that is Single Display?

thanks

[Petter]

Well...
There is a 32 mb Single Head also.
This is all the G400-cards (non-marvel) on the market:

Matrox Millennium G400 16Mb Single Head
Matrox Millennium G400 16Mb Dual Head
Matrox Millennium G400 32Mb Single Head
Matrox Millennium G400 32Mb Dual Head
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX 32Mb Dual Head

P.S. I know there is a G400 32mb single head, cause my friend got one.

///Petter

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[motub]

The G400 SH (single head, naturally) units are not sold in the RETAIL channel, but the OEM ("white box") channel...

I'm betting you need that explained, so I will

RETAIL, you already know. Go to the store, there's the retail part, in that pretty box, with all that software, the long warranty, and the full support of the manufacturer (in this case Matrox). The only <u>retail</u> G400s are the four you listed above, and they are all DH parts.

OEM, also called "white box" ('cause the part comes in a... um, white box... ), also, rarely "bulk"... these are "Original Equipment Manufacturer" parts... similar to what we call "wholesale" in clothing.

Think of it this way... if your business, be it Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, or your local computer shop, built computers for sale to consumers, and you wanted to build them with G400's, you'd be buying a lot of them, and you wouldn't want to pay the retail price. Nor would you need that pretty box (the person buying the finished computer is never going to see it), all that software other than the drivers (Expendable and all that cost Matrox money to include, so it's cheaper to the VAR (Value Added Reseller, or this hypothetical computer shop) not to pay a share of that cost by not taking the software), or the long warranty (well, the VAR gets the warranty from <u>Matrox</u>... YOU, the consumer, get a warranty from your VAR when you buy the finished PC).

So Matrox, like every other manufacturer, sells bare parts, at a lower price than retail, to resellers who are intended to use them in PCs that they will then sell to us, the "little people" . But some mail order/web shopping merchants sell these OEM parts directly to us, and we buy them because they are less expensive than the retail parts.... even though you get less... less software, less warranty (depending on who you buy from), and (as Ant pointed out in your other thread on this question) sometimes fewer features. Software can be sold this way as well... remember when Win98 came out and you could get it cheaper than retail if you had bought a hard drive or CPU/mobo from the merchant? That's because it was OEM software, sold to the merchant at a wholesale price because it was the copy to be installed on a newly assembled PC by that merchant... since you must be assembling a PC yourself if you buy a CPU/mobo, or a hard drive, the merchants could bend the rules a little and sell you Win98 as well...

The G400 situation is a bit different than most OEM deals because of the Dual Head feature. Dual Head is first of all expensive, naturally the cost of the card can be reduced greatly by removing one of the video outputs. Secondly, consumers buying pre-assembled PCs are generally considered too stu... ummm, uninterested to know or care about the multiple monitor capabilities of Windows98, and likely to be alarmed by the whole concept, plus the cost of a 2nd monitor, etc. So the OEM G400s are single head parts. Obviously, in both 16 and 32 MB flavors... a non-technological consumer <u>can</u> understand "more memory"... , and again, probably don't know or care about the inability to connect a Rainbow Runner G-series... if they read enough hardware news and info to care about that, then they are a different kind of consumer than the one OEM parts are designed to serve, anyway.

Sorry if it's a little long, hope this helps clear up your questions, though.

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Holly

What? System specs? Oh, yes, right...well, at the moment, it's: Soyo 5EMA, K6-2 333, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, Maxtor 7GB HDD, LS-120, Promise Ultra33 EIDE controller, Diamond Monster Sound MX300, HP 8100i CD-RW, Hi-Val (Nakamichi) 16X 5-disk CD changer, Win98 +SR1...oh yeah, and a Millennium G200 8MB SGRAM.