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DVI or not didn't matter that much when your VGA had a good RAMDAC, and you had a good cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMDAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by LargoLasskhyfv 2mo ago
DVI or not didn't matter that much when your VGA had a good RAMDAC, and you had a good cable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMDAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMDAC
Which of course you could only see in direct comparison. Which most ppl didn't have the opportunity to do, so you needed experience instead to judge that. Which most ppl also didn't have, because they've been exposed to cheap stuff only.
- jaffa2 2mo agoMatrox used to have the best back in the day. Ai were ok and Nvidia were the worst. Even a lay person could see that difference between the tnt out put vs a millenium. It was so great that i used to use an older matrox card think it was the g450 since it worked great under Linux and the pq was amazing.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2mo agoYes. Matrox was very good. But so were later Voodoo3. I know, because I've driven a https://crtdatabase.com/crts/hitachi/hitachi-superscan-21-cm2112mu https://crtdatabase.com/crts/hitachi/hitachi-superscan-21-cm... with it. At 1600x1200@75Hz. Crystal clear and sharp. I also had something by ELSA with a S3 and a translucent blue RAMDAC by IBM. Same thing. But only 2MB VRAM, and PCI. So only useful for testing purposes. Regarding the usability under Linux, or rather support by XFree86, Matrox accelerated some graphics primitives in the DDX-layer, or whatever that was called then. So did the Voodoo3's! Independently of that Glide stuff for 3D. Really nice to have.