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NeoSeeker has posted a review on the Matrox G450e-TV video card



The Matrox Marvel G450 eTV is aimed at users looking for an "all-in-one graphics solution for home entertainment and the Web" and is essentially a low-cost version of the Marvel G400-TV that was released back in 1999. The G400-TV featured a 128-bit Single Data Rate (SDR) memory bus whereas the G450 eTV has a 64-bit Double Data Rate bus. The net bandwidth is the same, but the 64-bit bus is cheaper to produce, lowering the cost of the card. With the current state of memory prices, the 32MB of DDR RAM on the G450 eTV costs less than the 16MB of SDR on the G400-TV. Pretty sweet.
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