What video card to get?

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Hey Everyone,

I wanted to get an AGP dual head video card, so I can run dual monitors. But I don't know which one to get. Any recommendations? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

-Philippe
 
Matrox G450 if you don't plan to play games or do any 3D work. Its cheap (under $100) and extremely reliable with solid drivers.

The picture quality is significantly better also when compared to other consumer grade cards from ATI or nVidia.
 
What Brzilian said.
I'm a very satisfied Matrox G400 dualhead user.
Highly recommending Matrox cards for DAWs
 
Working environment for your creative music work is always 2D.

My choice for 2D is always Matrox, best 2D filter and refresh in the world.

However, ATI always regarded importance of superb 2D performance as mandatory,it just didn’t until recently made that as must for every card in his range, while for Matrox this was and is golden rule.

Every recent specially since 9600 Pro ATI is bullet proof 2D pro quality card.

So choice really is ATI or Matrox, I adore Matrox, and couldn’t care less about games, but there is no reason modern cards should only excel in 2D and be mediocre in 3D ( sadly painful fact with Matrox ) this is why if buying brand new card, ATI is more sane and complete purchase.

If used is on the table....then even Matrox G450 will be great
 
Matrox you say? I've never heard of that before...I'm more of a gamer turned psuedo engineer and all ever knew of was ATI or Nvidia. where can i find matrox cards? are they in stores or internet pieces only
 
try ebay

just search for a "matrox g450" buy-em now for about $40
 
www.matrox.com/mga

I have vowed never to buy another ATI card after their fiasco concerning XP drivers for the ATI All-in-Wonder 128 cards. It took them over 6 months AFTER the release of XP to provide working drivers/software that gave me full functionality for the card. Even their newer All-in-Wonder cards still have issues with Cakewalk software.
 
LOL see when it comes to stuff that stores refuse to take back...thats when i dont argue with you guys too much...on the ATI cards I definitely agree.....the all in wonder deal crapped out on a friends comp..never got working right at all. i havent changed out the geforce in my comp but now that I'm hearing good things about this matrox, i might give it a try.
 
It is true that prior to Radeon chipset (some Radeons included) specially Rage chipset drivers where catastrophe and made reputation for ATI as worst driver implementation right next
to famous HP drivers. (win 3x,9x)

With ATI AIW there is internal problem with sound from AIW card to audio card IN,that is very problematic to deal with drivers if one involves any kind of more resourceful music software that speaks more extensively with hardware. Combined with very poor even in XP implementation of MPU Midi resources this all combined makes sometimes very unpredictable situations.

But one has to be realistic, unless user is fluent with Assembler for best way to speak to hardware or very experienced with diagnostic, never create in PC conflicting environment from
inside if you want many things one machine.

PC is still in baby steps when compared with how Mac speaks to I/O resources.

There is one good thing in USB (2.0), Want to make music on your PC and have TV tuner card. extra midi channels, or even other sound hardware?

Plug it via USB (ext. sounblasters), There are more then adequate choices of TV capture devices for USB,Midi……easier and trouble free.
 
if you take a look on eBay, you can find Matrox G4+ on the cheap cheap - they are dual head cards which are G450's that are manufactured for Dell computers.

seems like I see a 450 go for $40-50, while I've picked up 2 G4+ cards for between $20-25 each.
 
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