RE; 2 Matrox gfx cards

[jiake]

I've faced this questions & hopes to knows any advice which Matrox gfx cards should I get between both retail version G400 DualHead 32MB TV & the new G450 32MB DDR (Dual-Head) AGP w/TV-Out? Thanks in advance.

[Maggi]

Get the G400 ...

[jiake]

Can provide reasons as to why chose this G400 instead of G450? TIA.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Maggi:
Get the G400 ... </font>

[Colin Morey]

Its demonstratably faster,

is that a good enough reason?

Colin

[jiake]

I mean how to tell if it's generally faster, any digits or statement proved? I hopes to retort those big mouth if I chose G400 over G450.

[Maggi]

Just believe us, we know it ...

My G400 OCed to 150/200MHz core/mem gave me +3300 3D Mark 2000 points
My G450 OCed to 180/360MHz core/mem gave me +2700 3D Mark 2000 points

All modern games suck big time on my G450 while they ran perfectly smooth on my former G400 ... need more ?

Use the search button ...

[jiake]

Thanks but I needs credibility instead of 3Dmark 2000 scores which might even not an well known issues to those whom can't even bothered to overclocked & benchmark but only understands that the newer and latest are always the best otherwise, I might have a pretty hard time convincing.

[kjliew]

Maggi's comment is from a gamer's perspective. If you want dual-head, G450 is better than G400.

[Kruzin]

If you look in the Benchmarks forum, you will find plenty of evidence that G400 is noticably faster than G450 in all benchmarks and games. G400s 128bit sgram memory bus is faster than G450's 64bit ddr, and WAY faster than G450LE's 64bit sdr.

As kjliew stated, G450 has a better second head output than G450, when using a monitor at extreme resolutions.
However, if a TV is to be used on the second head for DVD viewing and such, G400 does better scaling and looks better on a TV.

For general every day single head use (not frame rate counting 3D games or any dualhead activity) the cards are about equal.

[jiake]

Thanks alot to those that commented but I really hopes that I can convinced this person whom is quite hard to please. Also, he might be inclined to the more cheaper G450 & why?

[SuRGV]

You can get some little benchmarks over here
Trung