I bought the NEW Matrox Graphics Card...for $30

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

[SantaKlausFrosty]

I would love to see Matrox make a comeback into the gaming world given to how stable they are.

[longdang]

If Intel were to get Matrox to fix their arc gpu drivers problems, that would really be the start of interesting times for the GPU market.

[JimUK]

Seeing Matrox still around makes me happy, my first graphics card was a Matrox G200 with a massive 8MB of VRAM, good times.

[samuelchan]

Matrox made the most stable video card I've ever owned. They were one of the first companies to make a card with multi-monitor support and it always worked and never crashed in the multiple builds I put it in over a decade. Since they left the video card market, I switched to nVidia Quadro cards, but they still are not as bullet proof as the Matrox. I'm glad to see there are people out there that still appreciate the workhorse that it was.

[Breakfast_of_Champions]

The main point about the Matrox C-series is that they are meant to drive multi-monitor setups and display walls. This C-420 has 4 dsiplay ports and their software is specialized for this use case. Excellent stuff!

[truckerallikatuk]

Matrox key features were always image quality and reliability, and that's from before the Millenium and Mystique. Wonderful cards, I loved them.

[jamieimbusch]

i cant believe how stable the frame rate is. ive never seen 30 fps GTA run so smooth

[victorhugofranciscon]

The best combination, watching a Budget Builds video while waiting to meet the doctor at a emergency service.

[flamingscar]

I would love to see Matrox make a comeback for the budget gaming scene, since both AMD and Nvidia have seemingly given up on the budget side of things, with Nvidia not releasing anything at all and AMD releasing both the 6500xt and 6400xt, both of which lacking a H26.4 encoder, which is a deal breaker in the modern day, plus at $200 the 6500xt is far from budget

[narwhal]

I'd love to see this card tested with Linux in some way. With the reputation NVIDIA and AMD drivers have between Windows and Linux, I'd be interested to see how Matrox drivers compare between Windows and Linux as well.

[razorsz]

Imagine a world where AMD Makes the GPUs, Matrox makes the drivers..Good cards, good price, good drivers!

[nevilovermann]

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!

[ewangardner]

Personally, I am loving the "graphics card in a hanging bird feeder" B-roll.

[saintuk]

I loved my Matrox cards in the mid to late 90's - the quality was excellent.

[grimmpickins]

Thank you. I want a Matrox comeback, especially considering the general malaise in GPUs in the post-2020 world. A 15w GPU that won't crash? Brilliant. I love this sort of stuff - please try another one at some point :)

[ironhead]

This makes me wonder what Matrox could do with GCN 4.0 cores ported to GF 12nm.

[AnalogX]

I worked for a company in the 90's that used Matrox cards to do OCR letters on a conveyor belt for the Postal Service, it was amazing how fast it would scan and convert to text.

[letto]

Better than something like the GT 710 I'd bet. I'd say with the big 2 (AMD & Nvidia, still need to wait & see how things go with Intel & their GPUs) focusing more on the more expensive higher end and not caring as much about the low end (looking at you RX 6400 & RX 6500 XT for AMD and the lowest of current gen for Nvidia is the RTX 3050), perhaps Matrox could slide in to handle the sub $100 budget range for GPUs, like perhaps make something that could beat the RX 6400 in performance & features, but offer it for less?

[ketxxx]

Maybe AMD quietly hired the Matrox driver team for their Adrenalin drivers, would explain the DX11 "code cleanup" thats recently happened that increased performance in DX11 titles quite considerably. You could also test that OpenGL performance against an equal AMD version with Basemark GPU, AMDs OGL performance has been absolutely horrible for years and needs as much expose ure as the lacklustre DX11 performance issue.

[danialonderstal]

The stability is really impressive, If matrox made a comeback I would at the very least keep a eye out and invest if performance was good for modern AAA titles.