Comments on: Matrox Unleashing A Beast of a Card

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:35:11 +0000

I think they were trying to push the Parhelia on gamers because it would support up to 3 monitors for “immersive gameplay”.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:09:07 +0000

I think you are right JC. The article did say that this card was aimed at content creators, which I would assume is a different category than designers.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:56:51 +0000

Actually, I think there were two G400s… the millenium, and the non-millenium. Neither is a consumer card, but the millenium is a much less powerful workstation card that uses only one GPU to run both displays, where the G400 (non-millenium) has multiple GPUs, could handle 2-4 displays, and sold for about 600-700 bucks

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:33:33 +0000

Thanks Kent.

I have been happy with the Matrox card I have been running for about 5 years and have seen good reviews of the Parhelia.

Will the nVidia/ATI/whatever cards do true dual head, where they stretch the toolbar to the second window? I have seen some cards that will support dual monitor, but the second monitor is basically a big blank area.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:28:44 +0000

Beware of the Matrox Hype! Their cards are always much better performers on paper…

And just about every mid-range and above nVidia or ATI card will also do twinhead/dualhead/whatever etc etc.