CANADIAN based company Matrox proved that it is not completely out of the picture. We learned that Matrox still have some massive contracts with many banks and hospitals making a visualisation equipment for them and its ready to announce one rather intriguing product.
Matrox calls it Matrox Extio F1400 and claims that it is the worlds first remote graphics unit. With such a card you can separate your keyboard, mouse, monitors, up to four of them and graphics hardware up to 250 meters of 820 feet from your computer. Its all interconnected with fiber-optic cable so theer is just enough bandwidth to do it.
The card supports up to four analogue or digital displays and is completely passive solution. Its cool as you will be able to have your computer in a super cooled controlled and locked environment while the rest of your peripherals will be next to you. You won't hear a sound and with something like this I might be back using super overclocking equipment with a fridge like sound but will be finally able to place the case outside of the office. Janitor would not like that but could use his / hers quarters for my machine and enjoy the super speed at very quiet office environment.
With this product Matrox aims at audio studios, broadcast studios, dispatch centres, control rooms and some public spaces as well. It is a cool concept as you can keep the brain, casse or rack of the computer in the locked room while you can display keyboard, mouse and monitors on a totally other site of the building. It will prevent nasty people stealing your whole demo machine at Cebit and we know that this happened more than once.
Matrox also introduced a new graphic term RGU, Remote Graphics unit and its card features 128 MB of graphic memory, dual LC connector for fiber-optic cable, four DVI-I monitor connectors, six USB 2.0 ports, four at the front and two in the back, integrated audio hardware, an optical connector for digital audio output, an analogue audio connectors for microphone input, line input and the line out sound output. It looks that this "graphic card" can do some sound as well. A Sound storm anyone, or should I revoke the spirits of NV1.
Matrox will make this card as a PCI or PCIe and its still not sure about its price. It should be ready to ship those rack looking graphic card in second quater of 2006. Sounds interesting indeed but also sounds very expensive.
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Matrox calls it Matrox Extio F1400 and claims that it is the worlds first remote graphics unit. With such a card you can separate your keyboard, mouse, monitors, up to four of them and graphics hardware up to 250 meters of 820 feet from your computer. Its all interconnected with fiber-optic cable so theer is just enough bandwidth to do it.
The card supports up to four analogue or digital displays and is completely passive solution. Its cool as you will be able to have your computer in a super cooled controlled and locked environment while the rest of your peripherals will be next to you. You won't hear a sound and with something like this I might be back using super overclocking equipment with a fridge like sound but will be finally able to place the case outside of the office. Janitor would not like that but could use his / hers quarters for my machine and enjoy the super speed at very quiet office environment.
With this product Matrox aims at audio studios, broadcast studios, dispatch centres, control rooms and some public spaces as well. It is a cool concept as you can keep the brain, casse or rack of the computer in the locked room while you can display keyboard, mouse and monitors on a totally other site of the building. It will prevent nasty people stealing your whole demo machine at Cebit and we know that this happened more than once.
Matrox also introduced a new graphic term RGU, Remote Graphics unit and its card features 128 MB of graphic memory, dual LC connector for fiber-optic cable, four DVI-I monitor connectors, six USB 2.0 ports, four at the front and two in the back, integrated audio hardware, an optical connector for digital audio output, an analogue audio connectors for microphone input, line input and the line out sound output. It looks that this "graphic card" can do some sound as well. A Sound storm anyone, or should I revoke the spirits of NV1.
Matrox will make this card as a PCI or PCIe and its still not sure about its price. It should be ready to ship those rack looking graphic card in second quater of 2006. Sounds interesting indeed but also sounds very expensive.
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