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Product:
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB Dual Head
Company: Matrox
Website: http://www.matrox.com
Estimated Street Price: £150/$149.95
Review By: Byron Hinson
Final Results
and Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Matrox's
Millennium G400 graphics card.
Final Comments
|
How It Grades
Installation: A+
Manual: B
Performance: A-
Drivers: A-
Look: N/A
Help Files: A-
Price: A-
Overall: A-
|
The G400 is probably the
best of the current crop of graphics cards out today, this doesn't mean
that there are no problems with it - The OpenGL ICD driver for instance,
isn't quite up to the standard of other cards OpenGL drivers yet, fingers
crossed that this will change in the near future (I'm assured that it
will). Direct3D performance is second to none and the image quality across
the board is superb.
Both home and business users
will find the top quality 2D and DualHead capability a very tasty
addition, while gamers are likely to find the image quality excellent and
Direct3D performance a big increase over other graphics cards and for
those of you who want good DVD performance without shelling out for a
separate DVD-Decoder card can't really go wrong. Overall its an excellent
buy.
| Overall
Score |
91% |
| Version
Reviewed |
Drivers
Version 5.21
Matrox G400 OpenGL ICD Driver Version: 5.21.017 |
| Release
Date |
Out
Now |
| In
The Box? |
1
G400 AGP Card
1 CD (Contains drivers, demo games, Expendable Full game)
1 Instruction Manual
1 S-Video Cable |
| The
Good Points |
Easy
To Install
Great 32Bit Color Performance
Good DVD Playback
Wonderful Image Quality
Hardware EMBM
Will Be Even Better In The Future |
| The
Bad Points |
Some
Games Won't Work Properly
OpenGL ICD Needs More Work |
| Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
II 450
Windows 98 Second Edition
128 Meg SD-Ram
Voodoo 2 - 8mb
DirectX 6.1a
SoundBlaster Live! Value
17" LG Electronics Monitor
Matrox G400 32MB AGP Graphics Card
Microsoft Force Feedback Pro
Microsoft Freestyle Pro (USB)
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80 (USB)
DVD Setup: Toshiba SD-1202
DVD-ROM - 32x
DVD TV Player - Samsung 807
|
| PC
Required |
Windows
3.1, NT 3.51 & OS/2 Warp 95/98/2000 Or Higher
Intel Pentium 100 PC (or 100% compatible CPU)
CD/DVD-ROM Drive
Integrated USB 1.0 Controller or USB 1.0 Controller Card
30MB Hard-Drive Space |
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