Ever Wanted a 20480 X 3200 Resolution Display? Matrox Has You Covered.
Ever Wanted a 20480 X 3200 Resolution Display? Matrox Has You Covered.
Posted 11/12/2009 at 3:45pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Edit: Whoops, our previous resolution figure was wrong, and has been corrected.
Matrox isn’t a name you hear a lot anymore. The graphics spotlight has been effectively taken over by Nvidia and AMD. Matrox isn’t letting that get them down and have announced a new GPU, the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 multi-display Octal.
The M9188 comes equipped with eight DisplayPort outputs and 2GB of RAM. Each of the DisplayPorts is capable of driving a monitor with a resolution of 2560x1600. They also throw in eight DisplayPort to DVI adapters in case you have eight DVI monitors lying around.
Further, the driver supports multiple cards on a system. So with two of these monsters, you’d be capable of running 16 monitors with a total resolution of 20,480 X 3,200, in a 2 X 8 configuration. Good luck finding wallpaper for that.
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FRAGaLOT
November 12, 2009 at 4:43pm
Rahter useless for home users. Who needs more than 2 or 3 displays? This is better suited for stage events like concerts, and sports events.
big_montana
November 13, 2009 at 8:16am
Unless you want a surround view setup which will require more monitors. A friend of mine has a setup with 9 LCD's for gaming with surround view.
Jox
November 12, 2009 at 4:38pm
I'd love to see a market resurgence of Matrox cards for gaming. They were always decent, but never quite bar-raising. They had some good ideas (the Parhelia) and some poorly executed ones (the Parhelia), and a 3-way battle for market share was always good for consumers. Sadly, they made themselves largely redundant to home users. Hopefully this is a sign of their return to a position of competent competition.
-Jox
xchrissypoox
November 12, 2009 at 4:31pm
No, its an opengl card, it doesn't support directx 9, 10, or 11.
msnight04
November 12, 2009 at 4:09pm
Can it run Crysis? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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gendoikari1
November 12, 2009 at 3:55pm
Ehkukh me, can khew khep me get khy gaw okh de khor? (Excuse me, can you help me get my jaw off the floor?)
nekollx
November 12, 2009 at 4:08pm
Can it play Crysis?
No joke. Crysis (and all games really) are optimized for ATI/Nvidia so can a "3rd party" (in every sense of the word) even run games?
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gendoikari1
November 12, 2009 at 4:38pm
Try watching something like Planet Earth in that kind of resolution. The closest comparable thing that can actually run Crysis is probably the Eyefinity setup (but that is only 6 monitors compared to 16).
sasquatch42
November 12, 2009 at 6:11pm
doesn't Eyefinity work with xfire? so we can use 24 monitors and play Crysis if we are willing to shell out ~$2500 on video cards
WarCrime342
November 12, 2009 at 9:10pm
It took me a couple re-reads, but when you said "xfire" I thought you were referencing the IM client. Everyone else here probably understood what you said, but to avoid the confusion I would have spelled out the whole thing.
Shckr57
November 13, 2009 at 5:40pm
i was like, wtf do you need xfire for, and pondered for like 3min till i read the comment, crossfire. ooohhh, lol.
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