Pamela,
All I can tell you is that the G550 is great for photos! Combined with my new LCD, once calibrated, I am blown away by the quality of the images that are showing up on my monitor. (Unfortunately I did not try out my old video card with the new monitor, so cannot offer an opinion there). Once I get used to working with this combo for a day or two, I plan to add my old monitor to the system.
One thing I did notice was that the Matrox really only has 32MB of RAM. It will play most of the games that I am ever likely to play (not a gamer at all), but it did skip a few frames in a few spots (not a big deal to me, though). It will play back DVDs quite nicely, so I'm not too worried.
Another thing I noticed: I cannot calibrate the LCD if I connect to the Matrox G550 in DVI. Most of the settings become inaccessible, and I cannot get the Spyder to calibrate it adequately. I suspect this is a limitation of either the card, or the monitor. Once I switched back to analogue connection (RGB), I calibrated, and the LCD came to life!
Regards,
Rudi
http://www.rudiphoto.net/
All I can tell you is that the G550 is great for photos! Combined with my new LCD, once calibrated, I am blown away by the quality of the images that are showing up on my monitor. (Unfortunately I did not try out my old video card with the new monitor, so cannot offer an opinion there). Once I get used to working with this combo for a day or two, I plan to add my old monitor to the system.
One thing I did notice was that the Matrox really only has 32MB of RAM. It will play most of the games that I am ever likely to play (not a gamer at all), but it did skip a few frames in a few spots (not a big deal to me, though). It will play back DVDs quite nicely, so I'm not too worried.
Another thing I noticed: I cannot calibrate the LCD if I connect to the Matrox G550 in DVI. Most of the settings become inaccessible, and I cannot get the Spyder to calibrate it adequately. I suspect this is a limitation of either the card, or the monitor. Once I switched back to analogue connection (RGB), I calibrated, and the LCD came to life!
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Regards,
Rudi
http://www.rudiphoto.net/