i would appreicate if anyone can help me. I need to buy a graphic card that can do multmonitor(dual). i was advised to buy matrox G550 but when i search for a review on the product it was terrible. Could some one please advise me for alternative product. Thanks
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the radeon9800xt is a good consumer graphics card, the Matrox G550 thou has less RAM is an excellent proffesional graphics card for 2D-dosnt have the fps speed for 3D, I brought the g550 and had no problems with it till i purchaced vice city and needed to get a "gamers" card, so i got the radeon. as a suggestion, and if you have the cash, go for the Matrox Parhelia http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/home.cfm http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/home.cfm the image quality on the matrox cards is unsupassable--i belive if you are incline to play 3D type games then get the radeon. ask yourself whats more important Premire or Quake?
