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Review : Matrox G450 and G550
Matrox is a long standing name in anything video related. whether it's for video capturing and special effects cards , or computer videocards. They always had a taste for the unusual. The G450 and G550 are no exception. When other card vendors are happy to make a card that can drive a monitor , Matrox has to have a card that can drive 2 monitors. Not only that , but also do it in different modes and resolutions.
The
G550 is the latest incarnation of the G series Graphics Processing Unit
( GPU ).Matrox is one of the few remaining card vendors that design and
use their own chips.
The G550 card is available in multiple versions , distinguished from one another by the kind of connectors on the bracket. My model had both a D15 and a DVI connector. The card comes shipped with a convertor plug form DVI to D15.
DVI is a new standard to connect high performance displays to video cards. Notably the high end LCD displays use this interface to overcome the limitations of the classic 15 pin cable. DVI use a high-speed serial interface that uses transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) to send data to the monitor.
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