Thread: The Matrox Mystique G200 Graphic card

If you're into gaming on your PC, you'll need a 3D graphics card. There are other types of game available, of course, but it's the 3D action titles such as Quake II, Forsaken and Unreal that are proving the most popular. And as games like this become ever more realistic - assuming that your concept of reality involves riding armoured rocket bikes through tunnels or shooting aliens with unfeasibly large guns - they are requiring ever more processing power. The PC's processor alone can't cope. It needs help.



There are dedicated 3D accelerator cards available, but 3D functions are increasingly being built into 2D graphics cards, such as this Mystique G200 from Matrox. Built around the company's own MGA-G200 processor, which is also used in the Millennium, it has 8MB of SDRAM memory, which can be upgraded to 16MB using the SODIMM socket on the card. Not that you're likely to need it, since the standard memory count is enough for a resolution of 1280 x 1024 in 24-bit colour depth. Being an AGP card, none of that memory is used for 3D textures, which are stored in the PC's system memory instead.