Back on Matrox Powaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Evildead666]

Wohoo.
got my G450 PCi yesterday at work, and the new extra 17in screen so I can do Dualhead, and actually work properly, instead of constantly switching between windows...

[VJ]

Great for you!

At work, I "confiscated" an unused 17" lcd and connected as second monitor to the NVidia 9600 (passive!)... Monitor setup is 24" (1920x1200) and a 17" (1280x1024).

Jörg

[Dr Mordrid]

Back To The Future

To be honest I still have rigs with their APVe cards. Great for editing.

[Mehen]

We still not only use them at work - but still buy new ones!

Granted they are $$$ frame-grabbers and not used for powering displays, but they're still Matrox.

[cjolley]

That would be an interesting poll:

How old is your oldest currently in use vid card?

Mine is a Voodoo3 PCI that I have in our file/print "server" at home.

It does not have a monitor attached except when doing maint or repairs that can't be done by remote desktop.


PS oldest Matrox in use is the G450 in Becky's computer.

[VJ]

My oldest in use is a G550 AGP (in my dad's Pentium-II).
I'm still running a Parhelia (first version) in my main system.

[Dr Mordrid]

My original Rainbow Runner Studio/Mystique. Damned thing just won't die, so Erik is using it for vidcap in an old box.

[Nowhere]

Hmm, I'm sitting at my main machine currently...which has G400 16MB SH AGP & G450 16MB DH PCI

[Evildead666]

the oldest in use, is a TNT2 m64 agp at home.....

edit : I also have a handful of G200 AGP's lying around doing nothing...can't bring it upon myself to throw anything out...

edit2 : The G450 seems to be a PCIe native one, with a PLX translation chip for the PCI bus...
Its passively cooled, and gets bitching hot in the NEC Powermate VL6 I have at work, with very very little ventilation...only the PSU fan as extractor...

[magician]

I have several G200 at work, and two G400DHs, couple G200s, one G200MMS and RRG laying around the house, waiting for appropriate hosts.

[KRSESQ]

I'm still using my old G400 Marvel in the family room computer. Still captures beautifully.

Kevin

[Nowhere]

Evildead, my G450 PCI also runs very hot...and does this for a few years without any problems.

So it would seem it's "normal"...

[gt40]

hmm, g400 w/RR,g450,p650, G200, G100, Matrox Mistake (Mistique), and Parhelia. Only the Parhelia is in use

[UtwigMU]

I still have Millennium PCI in my fileserver. I miss 3 monitors, now IL2 Sturmovik is only 10 Euros or so on Steam.

[RedRed]

Millenium PCI here in my 'box of bit' used for troubleshooting - when I need a PCI card.

My oldest box is currently running with a g400 - but has no monitor attached (a smoothwall server in the roofspace - havent attached a monitor to it in at least a year

Everything current with a discrete video card is an ATI. I have had 1 older 'powercolor' ATI card literally catch fire (well, smolder, smoke and everything!) inside one of the PC's here (a shuttle - v small and hot case). I only once had a matrox card fail - (a g100) and not more than 2 DOA - I bought perhaps 70 + Matrox cards when I used to build PC's....

RedRed