What was your first Matrox Card?

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  • [Ch]amsalot
    MURCer
    • Jun 2002
    • 194

    #1

    What was your first Matrox Card?

    Mine was the original Millenium with 4MB of WRAM. Those were back in the glory days of PCI videocards and 2D speed was all that mattered.

    -[Ch]amsalot
  • TdB
    Super MURCer
    • Jan 2001
    • 1238

    #2
    matrox mystique pci 2mb + 2mb memory upgrade.
    This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.

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    • Ant
      Administrator
      • Aug 1999
      • 2375

      #3
      Millennium 2MB WRAM

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      • SpiralDragon
        Super MURCer
        • May 2002
        • 3548

        #4
        Mine too was the original Millenium 4mb ... loved that card.... still have it locked up safly
        "They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

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        • xortam
          Super MURCer
          • Sep 1999
          • 4534

          #5
          Max ... the one and only! ... for now.
          <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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          • [Ch]amsalot
            MURCer
            • Jun 2002
            • 194

            #6
            Man, I wish I could still find the computer that was attached to the darn card! Maybe it's still in the office somewhere...

            -[Ch]amsalot

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            • guillenv
              mini MURCer
              • Jul 2001
              • 13

              #7
              Millennium II 8MB + RRStudio

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              • KeiFront
                Super MURCer
                • Sep 2001
                • 2668

                #8
                Millenium 4Mb sadly I haven't got it anymore.
                Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                • CHHAS
                  Super MURCer
                  • Jan 2000
                  • 1223

                  #9
                  My first Matrox was a G400 bought shortly after I discovered this place, bought an old Mystique later on.
                  "That's right fool! Now I'm a flying talking donkey!"

                  P4 2.66, 512 mb PC2700, ATI Radeon 9000, Seagate Barracude IV 80 gb, Acer Al 732 17" TFT

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                  • Reckless
                    MURCer
                    • Feb 2001
                    • 160

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Ant
                    Millennium 2MB WRAM
                    Snap

                    OEM model I seem to remember ! I 'may' actually have it around somewhere (not 100% sure about that tho!)
                    Cheers, Reckless

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                    • DC
                      MURCer
                      • Jan 2001
                      • 140

                      #11
                      G400 just as it came out.

                      DC

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                      • Jammrock
                        The Berserker
                        • Aug 1999
                        • 8661

                        #12
                        Millennium 4 MD WRAM back in 1997 with my first computer. I had a G400 at one point, and at some point I'll have a Parhelia.

                        Jammrock
                        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                        –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                        • Kastuvas
                          MURCer
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 395

                          #13
                          Mine was G400, it was in a computer that i bought after reading a pc review in a computer magaziene. I didn't know anything about the computers i just bought the one that recieved an an award, hehe i even remeber asking my firiend to come over to take the pc out of the box and wire it up.

                          So infact that i have matrox card now is a complete fluke, it could of been any other card, hehe lucky me
                          Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (nForce2)>>AMD 2500+@ 3200+ (Barton)>>1.5 GB Ram (PC400)>>Leadtek GF 6800 12x6(385/850)>>Western Digital 120GB (WD1200JB) & Fujitsu 20Gb(MPF3204AT)>>Cambridge Audio azur 540A>>Razer Viper(Mouse)>>V7 V7S20PD 20.1 TFT Monitor>>NEC 3510A>>Lite-ON (40x10)>>Cherry CyMotion>>CanoScan N670U>>Epson Stylus Color 760>>Windows XP (SP2)


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                          • Taz
                            Super MURCer
                            • Nov 1999
                            • 1393

                            #14
                            Matrox MGA Impression Plus , one of the first 64bit graphics cards.

                            Quick snip for an old Byte review :-

                            "The MGA Impression Plus, from Matrox Graphics, had one of the strongest combinations of features, usability, and performance; it finished second in the best-overall category. Its $449 price tag may seem a bit steep, but that's substantially lower than the price of many other comparable high-performance PCI boards on the market today. Its ability to change resolutions on the fly, its pioneering support of 3-D (unfortunately for testing purposes, it does not yet support OpenGL), and its high performance scores put it one step from the top."

                            Note it was $50 more than the Parhelia
                            Last edited by Taz; 21 June 2002, 11:35.
                            When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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                            • 103er-Fan
                              MURCer
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 320

                              #15
                              Matrox Mystique with 4mb! This card was great, I got it in mid 1996, and it was in my comp for about the next 3 years. After that I got a V3 3000, but the Matrox isn't laying around or something, it is in the comp of a friend and he says that this card is still great (he uses his comp ONLY for 2d and some old 3d shooters) and he is not planning to replace it that soon. The best is that the card always ran without a single problem, the same with the drivers. I think that is a good proof that you buy quality if you buy a card manufactured by Matrox.

                              Now I am looking forward to the Parhelia, I wish I would have a credit card so I could pre-order one
                              Specs:
                              MSI 745 Ultra :: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ :: 1024 MB PC-266 DDR-RAM :: HIS Radeon 9700 (Catalyst 3.1) :: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 :: Pioneer DVD-106S :: Western Digital WD800BB :: IBM IC35L040AVVN07

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