Matrox P650 vs Quadro 500

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Limp Gawd
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I have a chance to pick up a Quadro 500 for cheap and was wondering if anyone had an opinion or data that may help with the performance question -

Link to Quadro Quadro 550 AGP

Link to Matrox Matrox P650 AGP
Which of these two cards will be a better 2D workstation card?
Monitors are dual Dell 2005FPW - 1680x1050

The Matrox has dual DVI, and the NV card has one DVI and one Ananlog plug.
Matrox is 64mb vs 128mb on the NV card...

No gaming, CAD or special 3d applications - Windows only -
Word, Excel, Email, newsgroups, IRC, burning station...

Overall speed though - any difference?

All opinions and thoughts are welcomed! :)
 
matrox.

it has some cool 2d only features that other cards don't.

like 2d vsync and some cool font AA and other stuff.
 
PRIME1 said:
2D only? Go with the Matrox and the dual DVI.
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Agreed

If all you need the card for is basic Windows, internet, etc, the extra memory won't help you at all. You'll probably want to have the 2 DVI, expecially if you have both monitors next to each other.
 
I figured this may be the case... the P650 is a newer card and currently does fairly well.
The x64 XP drivers are actually stable at this point too -

I was just hoping to get a better card at nearly no investment.
 
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