Millenium G450 PCI = more than "just" two monitors?

[Ansigod]

Before I realised that there were only AGP DualHead cards I wondered what would happen if you put two (or more) Matrox cards with DualHead in one Win2k (or other OS) machine. I made a post about it a while back but retracted once I found out that the PCI breed didn't exist.

Now that the Mill. G450 has been announced, what are the possibilities?! 4 monitors? More, even?

[SteveC]

Can't you go up to 8 monitors? I can't remember. I'll see if I can find out...

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Cheers,
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"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Maggi]

Powerdesk supports up to 17 displays ...

[SteveC]

Good luck on finding a motherboard which enough PCI slots!!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[SteveC]

Ah, just found out that officially:

For NT 4.0 = 16 monitors

For 2K = 10 monitors

For 98/ME = 9 monitors


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Cheers,
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"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Colin Morey]

My motherboard, (An abit BH6) has 1 agp and 5 pci, so oh, call it 12 monitors (grin)

12*32=384, hmm, thats more video memory than I have system memory, (256)

On another note, will the G400 work in an AGP Pro slot, or is it likely to go nuts?

Colin

[Maggi]

How about a DH AGP and three Quad-MMS-G200 ?

[Colin Morey]

hmm, why only 3???

I have 5 pci slots
*grin*
o.k. so NT may freak... but who cares
and in reality 4xquad-MMS-G200 is going to be better than your mix,

still not found an answer to my question *sigh*

[Colin Morey]

if the limit of Powerdesk is 17,
G400SH
and 4 quads.

[Nuno]

Colin Morey, my G400 works fine on the Asus A7V (AGP pro slot). Just be sure to leave the plastic protection oven the non-used connectors and it´ll be fine...

[frankymail]

WTF, have you seen prices for hte G450 PCI ??? $190 US + $5 shipping for the 16 mb version!!! To me, that is FRAUD... I'm not willing to pay more than $150 CAN ($100 US) for such a board... If at least the G450 came equipped with 128-bits DDR-SDRAM... hum...G800... NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I'm going crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Currently in the 3D psychiatry dept,
Francis Beausejour

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[DuRaNgO]

Check your info:

Pricing and Availability

The Millennium G450 PCI will be available through traditional Matrox distribution channels including Matrox’s online store at www.shopmatrox.com in Q2 ’01 for U.S. $115.

[Colin Morey]

what's the significance of the little sticker?? dust protection?

[SteveC]

It's a sticker, but also there's a plastic plug beneath it. It stops you putting a 'normal' AGP card in the wrong place in an AGP Pro slot.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Topha]

okay, if one of you can afford 17 monitors, please send me some of the change