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virulence88
07-01-06, 07:40 PM
I was recently given this old boat anchor gateway computer from my uncle who does not need it anymore. I didnt expect much in there just a Pentium 133 and some other old stuff. However there was this matrox pci card for video. My knowledge goes as far back as Geforce 4 so I have no idea what this thing is. It still works so there still might be SOME usability in it yet.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4968/matrox12lb.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=matrox12lb.jpg)

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3052/matrox25tl.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=matrox25tl.jpg)

No model number jumps out at me right away. The bottom chip which I think is the graphics chip says:

M A T R O X
MGA
Power Graphics
IS-Storm R2
9547EK004


Also theres a wierd pcb raised up at the end which I would guess to be memory.

What is this thing? Was it any good? Can I still use it today in modern day motherboards pci slot?
|MaguS|
07-01-06, 07:46 PM
M A T R O X
MGA
Power Graphics
IS-Storm R2
9547EK004


It's a Matrox Millennium 2MB, it will display text and normal websites but nothing too graphical. If it works it will work in any PC. Windows should even have the drivers preinstalled aswell...

Latest Drivers:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/w2k_582.cfm
virulence88
07-01-06, 07:54 PM
Oh cool. Thanks for the info |MaguS|
Darth Rancid
07-02-06, 12:33 PM
Back in the pre-historic days of 1996 those cards were nearly top of the line.. :) They were rather overpriced though.
|MaguS|
07-02-06, 12:34 PM
Back in the pre-historic days of 1996 those cards were nearly top of the line.. :) They were rather overpriced though.

Yeah, I had one with Dual Voodoo2's!
rage10
07-02-06, 07:08 PM
Yeah, I had one with Dual Voodoo2's!
thay had sli back then?
|MaguS|
07-02-06, 07:14 PM
thay had sli back then?

Voodoo 2's released in Jan 1998, I didn't get the M2 till middle of 1997 due to its high cost. 2MB of ram on a videocard was nuts back then!
krocodile
07-08-06, 11:55 AM
Sorry, maybe a little off topic but the name Matrox brought up a memory for me. I still have in my posession a Matrox G2 AGP Video Card. I remember I used to try and few DirectX 8.1 games on it and could barely get 800X600 with low details to work. The card has a memory expansion slot on it so you could bump up the VRAM with just a purchase of the optional module. It's to bad it doesn't work anymore... heh... the whole screen turns purple when it's used, and the heatsink on the GPU fell off... oh well.