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Product:
Marvel G400TV 16Mb
Company: Matrox
Website: http://www.matrox.com/mga
Estimated Street Price: $299.00
Review By: Julien JAY
Introduction
Up until
recently, Matrox was known to be the king of 2D graphics. When Matrox
released the Matrox Mystique board, years ago, it had been a great
success for Matrox with the inclusion of some of the first 3D features.
However Matrox didn't manage to follow its competitors like Nvidia, 3dfx
and others in the amazing 3D features' race. Months after releasing the
Millennium G400, an award-winning board with innovating and sufficient
3d features for everyone even hard core gamers, Matrox now present the
Marvel G400 board it's multimedia high quality all built-in video board.
The marvel G400 adds the following exciting features to the G400 board:
TV reception and MJPEG video capturing.
Here are the basic features of the new card:
- .25 micron, five layer metal process technology
- 256-bit DualBus architecture
- True 128-bit external bus to video memory
- Full AGP 2X/4X with Multi-threaded Bus Mastering
- 16MB SGRAM
- True Environment Mapped Bump Mapping
- Vibrant Color Quality2 (VCQ2) rendering
- Matrox DualHead Display Technology
- 32-bit Z-buffer including 8-bit stencil buffer
- Symmetric Rendering Architecture
- 300MHz UltraSharp RAMDAC
- Display up to 2048x1536x32-bit
- Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic filtering
- Single cycle multi-texturing
- Texture sizes up to 2048x2048
- Full scene anti-aliasing
- Full hardware subpicture support for DVD playback
- High
broadcast quality build-in TV Tuner
- Avid
Cinema video mounting software
- Full
resolution, full frame-rate video capture & playback with high
quality harware MJPEG compression/decompression (704*576 PAL and
704*480 NTSC @ 30fps)
- Easy
audio/video and TV connection with Marvel blue external connector
box
- Matrox SoftDVD Player
- Rage's Expendable included
- Software bundle: Avid Cinema, Photo
Express 2, LSX MPEG II transcoder, PC VCR Remote.
- Games included : Tonic trouble & Wild Metal Country.
2D resolutions and colours
Colors
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16
MB
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256
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2048 x 1536
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65 K
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2048 x 1536
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16.8 M
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2048 x 1536
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3D resolutions and colours
Colors
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16
MB
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65 K
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2048 x 1536
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16.8 M
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1600 x 1200
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Maximum
refresh rates
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Marvel
G400 TV
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Refresh
Rates
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Vertical
(Hz)
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Horizontal
(KHz)
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2048
x 1536
|
70
|
110
|
1920
x 1440
|
75
|
115
|
1800
x 1440
|
80
|
120
|
1600
x 1200
|
100
|
130
|
1280
x 1024
|
120
|
130
|
1152
x 864
|
140
|
130
|
1024
x 768
|
160
|
130
|
800
x 600
|
200
|
130
|
640
x 480
|
200
|
130
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