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First post, by CasualRobert

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Hello,

i found an old Graphics card while searching for another. I already looked up on the internet, but wasn't able to find anything about it.
I was thinking about to sell it, but i am not sure if its worth it.
What do you guys think?
Link : https://imgur.com/a/PfJBd

Thanks in advance.

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Reply 1 of 6, by BSA Starfire

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That is a Matrox G450, they are nice cards, image quality is great, i use a PCI version with DVI port in one of my pentium III builds. however they are not worth much, especially the AGP ones are very cheap, maybe $10 US? I know they are very common cards on ebay here in the UK.

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Reply 2 of 6, by derSammler

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That's a G45+ Dual Head, same as G450 with support for two displays. Value? Well, nothing, really. Those are great cards when it comes to image quality, but they are easy to find and worth almost nothing. Got two of these virtually for free myself a few days ago, too.

Reply 4 of 6, by clueless1

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CasualRobert wrote:

Thanks very much to both of you. I wanted to put it inside of my Windows 98 SE machine do you know where i can get any drivers?

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/

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Reply 5 of 6, by BSA Starfire

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If I remember right the last drivers for the Matrox cards removed D3D support. you'll want to browse the Matrox archive for earlier revisions of drivers for 3D to work.
There is also a really neat Matrox G400 tech demo well worth checking out, sadly it's too big for me to upload here, but you should be able to find it.

286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME