On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:47 am, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote: > >On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:27, Mary Gardiner wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> > Matrox in both cases? > >> > >> Yeah, same card in fact. > > > >Help me out here ... if Matrox uses an nvidia chipset, right? > > Nah, matrox are their own, but you rarely see them nowadays because they > are tuned for 2D performance and the kids love 3D. If I'm wrong and you > can still buy Matrox, stamp out this FUD, but I haven't seen any in the > usual online hardware stores[1] for a while. > > I've never run two Matrox cards together, I've only owned and used > single cards with dual outputs on them. They work really well for > xinerama but you lose 3D in dual-head mode. Still, if all you use 3D > for is glsnake[2] you barely notice ;-) > > [1] http://www.eyo.com.au > http://www.auspcmarket.com.au > > [2] Thanks Benno! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg
Here's some Matrox cards for you :) Albeit older G4xx and G5xx chipsets. http://www.cougar.com.au/hardware/hardware2.cfm?hware=VGA&FHCID2=479 The newer Parhelia cards can be sourced directly from Matrox via their website. The Aussie exchange rate with Canada is pretty good (better than $USD[1]) so it's worthwhile if you do a lot of graphics/video stuff. Personally, I like my G400Max. Dual head (17" CRT primary, 15" CRT secondary) and the extra screen real-estate, rock solid 2D, fantastic colour and driver stability/simplicity means I doubt I'll be forking out for a new video card any time soon. If you don't play games and want the best 2D available, get Matrox. James [1] At the time I wrote this: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:38am (Aust ESST): 1 Australian Dollar = 0.99280 Canadian Dollar -- Fortune cookies says: Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. -- Charles D'Hericault -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
