I have been using Matrox cards since the early 1990s. My sole reason is
their superlative text quality.
I just built a new PC based on the PCI-e spec running Windows Vista. I have
Vista Enterprise thru my company.
Because I wanted to run the Vista Aero color scheme, I opted for a card that
has 256 mb of memory - an excellent card from Gigabyte that uses the NVidia
7600GT engine.
I can only say that compared w/my Matrox 650 and before that 550 and before
that 450 and before that the Mystique, the text on this card is blurry. Its
not even close. The only way is was even marginally acceptable was to turn
on cleartype which I have always disliked.
I just don't get it especially since the Matrix 650 PCIe card w/128mb is
based on the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT chipset (according to CNet).
Am I imagining things here. I am not a gamer. I work primarly w/office
applications. This is disappointing.
One final thing - in MSOutlook, there is now a 1/2 second hesitation w/html
graphics are rendered. Prior to this w/my old PC, which was a very fast AMD
dual core machine, you never say any rendering - the image graphics
displayed instantaneously. This is annoying as well.
Any thoughts?
Why is Matrox shutting down their forums?
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