Manufacturer: Matrox Tech: AGP based G200 board with 16Mb SGRAM Bundle: Drivers and no games! Price: $149 w/ 8Mb - $198 w/ 16Mb

After our recent review of Matrox's Mystique G200 we've followed up by taking a closer look at it's sibling - the Millenium G200. Based on the same Matrox G200 chipset you can of course expect a lot of common features. Just like the Mystique, the Millenium is a full featured AGP board offering all the perks of tri-linear filtering, per-pixel mip-mapping and a 32bit Z-buffer with impressive 32bit rendering pipeline with Matrox's VCQ which gives some superb visuals. AGP implementation comes in 2x flavor hence supporting texturing from local memory is supported.

Both 2D and 3D performance on the G200 is really quite classy. In 2D it stomps over everything that's currently available in the market right now but it also offers resolutions ranging from a measly VGA to impressive XGA resolutions with your now standard 16.8 Million colors at 1600 x 1200 and above. The 250Mhz RAMDAC featured on the Millenium G200 is just one step above what you'll find on the Mystique and hence offers even greater refresh rates maxing out at 90Hz running @ 1600 x 1200. That's not too shabby. Windows move smoothly across the screen and there's no jerky motion when scrolling through your precious documents regardless of application. Visual quality is top notch in 2D just as it is in 3D so what you get is currently the best all-round 2D/3D combination solution.