Matrox millennium g200 Graphics Cards

The Matrox G200 Multi-Monitor Series continues its long standing tradition of providing the multi-monitor market with the most flexible and highly advanced solutions in the industry. Matrox is the first company to offer a Quad-based PanelLink digital flat panel output to support these higher quality flat panel monitors. With the TV tuner and video capture options included, the Matrox G200 MMS is the most comprehensive multi-display solution available.The Matrox G200 Multi-Monitor Series features either two or four MGA-G200 processors and 8 MB of powerful SGRAM per controller. But, unlike many competitive solutions on the market, the Matrox G200 MMS supports either Dual or Quad analog or DVI PanelLink outputs. It also uses a high speed 250 MHz RAMDAC to ensure flicker-free displays, and supports true 24-bit color at resolutions as high as 1920 x 1200 per display. Under Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000 or Linux, you can use one Matrox G200 MMS card to run up to four monitors, four DVI based digital flat panels or a combination of the two. Equally important though, is the choice to include other multimedia functionality on the Matrox G200 MMS video card, such as a TV tuner with support for all major worldwide TV standards or video input/capture capabilities. Matrox also engineers the most reliable drivers in the industry. In addition to supporting all major operating systems, Matrox offers unified driver support for its full range of products. In addition, the Matrox PowerDesk Multi-Monitor desktop management software helps control application windows and dialog boxes for a more robust and efficient multi-monitor setup.

Millennium G200 is Matrox's most powerful graphics card for professional business graphics. This AGP 2X uses 8MB SGRAM and the new MGA-G200 64-bit DualBus graphics chip to provide advanced 2D, 3D and video acceleration. It can be upgraded to 16MB SGRAM. This graphics card supports AGP level 2X, which includes direct memory execute mode and sidebands. A sideband is an additional data path to the system memory apart from the main bus. Sidebanding lets the graphics processor line up new data requests as the main bus continues to gather data. Direct memory execute goes straight to the system memory for textures and pulls them directly into the graphics processor. These two technologies increase the AGP bandwidth and speed up data transfers. Millennium G200's hardware-accelerated 24-bit color produces photo-realistic images to view or edit graphics, documents, Web pages and designs at ultra-high resolutions without PC-slowdown. Millennium G200 brings entry-level workstation performance to the PC with its high-level, high-speed performance. It uses 32-bit vibrant color quality rendering architecture and an advanced setup engine to support all 3D special effects. It accelerates Direct3D and OpenGL applications with advanced alpha-blending, bi-linear filtering, tri-linear mipmapping, fogging, anti-aliasing and specular highlights. Its advanced setup engine processes over 1.5 million triangles per second and can process full-featured Direct3D and OpenGL polygons with high frame rates. Millennium G200 provides software MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video acceleration to playback multimedia CD-ROM and DVD titles at full-screen, full-motion. It is fitted with both a front and back-end scaler for high image quality. It also will accept the upcoming Matrox G-series hardware DVD accelerator for the highest quality DVD playback. IBM backs the Millennium G200 with a year parts warranty.