Matrox RX10 supported Motherboards

All Via boards are a problem with RTX10 and RTX100 from my experience.

Not wishing to see Wosfoldm's questions go unanswered but subtly changing tack - why should it be that VIA-based boards cause problems with these RTX products?

Bob C

my view.

VIA chipsets don't appear to be as capable of as much work as Intel's without larger driver files being used , possibly VIAs drivers are doing as much work as the chipset they are talking to.

VIA are constantly updating theirs whereas Intel don't seem to have to update as often.

I am not saying that all via boards are bad , just that i find Intels much more stable and compatible , though not necessarily as fast as some other chipsets , they make up for it in stability.

Our two rt2000 systems at work are VIA chipsets.
They take fits every so often and complain about the drivers for the g200 second display card.

My gateway board at home , same software / cards etc , doesn't.

Both motherboard designs are of the same generation , yet the INTEL is more stable than the VIAs

I've already got the feeling that the Via chipset does not work well. There are enough comments about this on the Matrox forum.

So.....

What socket 939 motherboard should I buy to get a Matrox RT.X10 system up and running and stable....

Does anyone have experience of a stable Socket 939 Athlon 64 system with a Matrox Rt.X10 system.

The Matrox forum posts intimate that the system may work but certain functions are unstable. Does anyone know what funtions are unstable. ??

Mark

only tested chipsets are :

http://www.matrox.com/video/support/rtx10suite/rec/chipsets.cfm

I would take the hint that it maybe isn't stable on a amd64 motherboard.
Matrox has more motherboards on it's incompatible list , than compatible.

I have two RT.X100's and they are VERY stable and working nicely on SiS chipped mainboards.

The first is in the near-bullet proof MSI 745 Ultra (SiS 745 chipset) with an AthlonXP 2400 and 1g of ram. Add some big HDD's, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (their newer cards work well too) and a DVD burner and the RT.X100 is as happy as a clam.

The second is in an ASRock K7S8XE (SiS 748/963L) with an AthlonXP 3000+, 1gb, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and the obligatory big HDD's.

While the Matrox site lists the 748 chipset as incompatable my looking at the betatesting timeline says that this decision was made on early boards based on this chipset. The ASROCK seems to bear this out as it's been running the RT.X100 happily for well over a year.

These boards also run MediaStudio Pro 7.0 and the MSP 8.0 beta very nicely ;)

Hi
Must agree with Terry, I run an RT.X100 on an ASROCK K7S8XE, 6 harddrives, Promise TX2, 109xlc DVD burner, 3200xp processor 1GB ram.
I only use the onboard sound & have no problems at all.
Premiere 6.5, Encore 1.5.
I wanted another K7S8XE but left it a bit late & its been superceded, but ASROCK do more boards with SIS chipsets.

Regards.

Peter.

PS
I stole the idea of the board from Terry(thanks Doc!)

Peter

N/p ;)

Thanks guys, it looks like there are some Athlon compatible motherboards out there after all, even though Matrox don't acknowledge them.

I've decided to hold on for a while; three main reasons;

1) We must be due a new Premiere in the autumn (I believe)
2) It must be time for a new Matrox Board (New premiere, HD editing and PCI Express)
3) If PCI bandwidth is the issue then a PCI Express option should resolve the problems.

Looking forward to the Autumn and a new set of potential tools....

(all of this is pure speculation).

Mark

I know nothink....nothink!! :)

It's not a card but an editing box like the Casablanca called the Matrox Axio HD:

http://matrox.com/video/products/axio/home.cfm

Just $11,495 :D

There is also an Axio SD, which can be upgraded with an HD breakout box. $7,495

That said the RT.X100 can do limited HDV editing within these parameters;

http://matrox.com/video/products/hdv_editing.cfm

LOTS of the upcoming software will be speccing PCIe as the desirable option, especially for HD editing.