MatroxRulez's personal profile:

MatroxRulez is a fictional name that I've been using on many different forums on the internet. In fact, it was year 2002 when I used this nickname for the first time when I registered into Matrox Graphics Technical Support Forums. Visiting these forums was just like a hobby for me, for a while. Sadly, Matrox Graphics has closed these forums since. I'd like to send my best regards to all of you, who still might remember me from those days, and to all current Matrox employees, ex-Matrox employees and Matrox users I might have helped during these years!


My history with Matrox products:

I've been using Matrox graphics products pretty much since I built my first PC in 1997. I had heird lots of talking about the remarkable 2D image quality of Matrox graphics cards and the product reviews told me the same story. So, I went and bought my first graphics card ever - Matrox Mystique 4MB. I haven't regret my decision since. A bit later, I also had Matrox Productiva 8MB AGP graphics card plus an additional 3D accelerator card - 3Dfx Voodoo2.

In 1999, I bought yet another Matrox graphics card - Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead 32MB AGP. It had capability to drive two displays at the same time. I didn't have multiple monitors at that time, but I really enjoyed the DVDMax feature. It allowed me to watch video films full screen on my television and still continue working with my primary display. For a while, this feature was unique-to-Matrox.

In 2002, Matrox launched their next generation graphics card. Matrox Parhelia was able to drive up to three monitors in stretched mode, witch allowed expanding games across all three monitors. Matrox calls this feature as Surround Gaming. I was thrilled about this option and I bought my Matrox Parhelia 128MB card immediately after they were available! About two years later, Matrox started selling slightly faster/improved AGP-8x versions of Parhelia cards. The original Parhelia cards were AGP-4x. I was already hooked on Surround Gaming and I wanted to achieve the best possible gaming experience, so I bought the newer AGP-8x version too.

I still use Parhelia in my primary PC system, together with Matrox Millennium P650 Low-profile PCI graphics card in the same system. I must say that the combination of these different type of Matrox cards works really well, because both Parhelia and P-series graphics cards use the same driver package from Matrox.

More recently, Matrox has taken slightly different approach to Surround Gaming with their TripleHead2Go series. Matrox TripleHead2Go is an external multi-display device that connects to a notebook or desktop PC via Dual-link DVI or VGA connection, depending on a product version and user's hardware. Currently I have Matrox TripleHead2Go Analog Edition connected to my secondary PC system, which is dedicated to gaming purposes only. However, I'm looking forward to get the Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition or Matrox TripleHead2Go DP Edition sometime in the future.


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