Ever Wanted a 20480 X 3200 Resolution Display? Matrox Has You Covered.
Posted 11/12/09 at 05:45:28 PM 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.
Rahter useless for home
Submitted by FRAGaLOT on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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.
Unless you want a surround
Submitted by big_montana on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 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.
Well, if it can't run
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 4:41pm
Well, if it can't run Crysis...
Can it run Quake III?
I'd love to see a market
Submitted by Jox on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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
A: "can it run crysis"
Submitted by xchrissypoox on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 4:31pm
No, its an opengl card, it doesn't support directx 9, 10, or 11.
I'm going to get shot for this but...
Submitted by msnight04 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 4:09pm
Can it run Crysis? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Submitted by gendoikari1 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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?)
Seriously though
Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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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Submitted by gendoikari1 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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).
Submitted by sasquatch42 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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
Crossfire
Submitted by WarCrime342 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 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.
Submitted by Shckr57 on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 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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