I bought the NEW Matrox Graphics Card…for $30

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Hello everyone and welcome to what seems to be the 3rd part in our Matrox Series, this time I have managed to get ahold of the fairly recent Matrox C420, a graphics card that involved a strange history with AMD, among many other things, from the world of gaming, through to emulation and the likes it certainly is a bit of a strange little device, so join me as we find out all there is to know about Matrox’s C420 Graphics Card.

Intro – 0:00
The History of Matrox – 0:15
What is the C420? – 2:13
The Specs – 3:35
Installing the Card & Drivers – 5:15
The Benchmarks – 6:40
GTA V (720p Normal/Soft Shadows) – 6:41
Skyrim (720p Med/High) – 7:20
Bannerlord (720p+75% Scaling Low) – 8:05
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Low) – 8:43
The Sims 4 (720p Med/High) – 9:31
CSGO (480p Competitive) – 10:03
Star Wars Fallen Order (768p Normal) – 10:41
Crysis OG (720p Medium/High) – 11:14
Half Life 2 (ft Matrox Parhelia) – 11:45
Issues and Problems – 12:40
3D Mark, Stability, and OCing – 14:31
Emulation: 16:52
Conclusion: 17:53

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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen R7 3700X
GPU: Matrox C420 GPU
RAM: 32GB DDR4 RAM
OS: Windows 10

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25 thoughts on “I bought the NEW Matrox Graphics Card…for $30”

  4. Funny story. I spent a lot on a top of the line Matrox graphics card. It was the best you could get at the time, in 1997.
    I was showing it off to my girlfriend and she told me her friend had a much better card. I told her there was no way because I had researched the cards available and this was about the best you could get.
    She decided to show me and took me to her friends apartment. He then proceeded to show me the new, at the time, 3DFX graphics card he purchased and what games looked like on it…
    I think you can guess how I felt, lol.

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  5. this would be a great card for my "retro" haswell system…. i'm knowing matrox since the good old 90's, with the Millennium I&II 🙂
    Ok, so went to ebay, entered matrox c420 LP, and boom from 139,99 to 199€ and more 🤮 This fu** scalper🤬 should they all get venereal diseases 😅

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  8. Man, I didn't know Matrox was known for making stable, reliable hardware and software. My only experience with their products is a TripleHead2Go on a version of MacOS that its software was never updated for. I'm not a Mac user; I hate it. Just gotta throw that in there. Same goes for Windows. But maybe I should be impressed that an outdated driver even worked at all on an updated system. Half the problem is Apple's crap OS that "just works (but only with Apple products)". You've corrected my opinion of Matrox. Though the TripleHead2Go has bad reviews on Amazon, so it's not just me having a bad experience with a several hundred dollar piece of equipment.

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  13. i have an rtx3060 and it still doesnt run wolfenstein enemy terrotory smoothly or correct lighting (some inside spawn points players are completely black), because of the shader simulated fixed pipeline opengl.

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  19. I REALLY didn't expect any of these games to be "playable" on the new Matrox cards. They are targeted at a very specific market and gaming is very far from what they were built to handle. Thank you for this video! This was a LOT of fun!

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  20. We had a family pc back in the day with a matrix card and a Pentium 2 233mhz. It ran alot great until voodoo hit. I still have it laying around somewhere.

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