Matrox Electronic Systems PCI G450 Hardware information, Features, Environmental specifications

Hardware information

Features

	Millennium	Millennium	Millennium	Millennium	Millennium
	G450 / G450 LX	G450 PCI	G450 LE	G450 DVI	G450 SH
Graphics chip	Matrox G450	Matrox G450	Matrox G450	Matrox G450	Matrox G450
	(256-bit DualBus)	(256-bit DualBus)	(256-bit DualBus)	(256-bit DualBus)	(256-bit DualBus)
	VCQ2 (Vibrant Color Quality2), environment-mapped bump mapping, stencil buffering,
3D features	anisotropic filtering, bilinear filtering, trilinear filtering, alpha blending, anti-aliased vectors,
	vertex fogging, table fogging, specular highlighting, 16-bit Z-buffering, 32-bit Z-buffering, single
	buffering, double buffering, triple buffering, texture mapping, MIP mapping, Gouraud shading
Main RAMDAC	360 MHz	360 MHz	360 MHz	360 MHz	360 MHz
Secondary RAMDAC	230 MHz	230 MHz	230 MHz	230 MHz	230 MHz
Memory	16 MB or 32 MB	16 MB or 32 MB	16 MB	32 MB	32 MB
Memory type	DDR (Double Data	DDR (Double Data	SDR (Single Data	DDR (Double Data	DDR (Double Data
	Rate) SDRAM	Rate) SDRAM	Rate) SDRAM	Rate) SDRAM	Rate) SDRAM
DualHead	%	%	%	%*	—
TV output†					—
(Composite video and	%	%	%	%
S-video, NTSC and PAL)
Card type	AGP 2× and 4×	PCI‡	AGP 2× and 4×	AGP 2× and 4×	AGP 2× and 4×
	compatible		compatible	compatible	compatible
AGP form factor	ATX	—	ATX	ATX or low-	ATX or low-
				profile	profile

*For Matrox products with a single DVI connector, DualHead is supported with a dual-monitor cable (see “Connection setup”, page 4).

† See “TV output”, page 20.

‡ G450-based PCI graphics cards are recommended for computers with Intel chipsets. See page 47.

Environmental specifications

!Minimum/maximum ambient operating temperatures: 0 to 55º C

!Minimum/maximum storage temperature: -40 to 75º C

!Maximum altitude for operation: 3,000 meters

!Maximum altitude for transport: 12,000 meters

!Operating humidity: 20 to 80% relative humidity (non-condensing)

!Storage humidity: 5 to 95% relative humidity (non-condensing)

!Estimated MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure): 21 years – for the model with the lowest estimated MTBF under normal working conditions

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