Matrox M series graphics cards

I am thinking about buying an M9125 card from the new range of Matrox M series cards. The details are here:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9125pciex16/
I have tried without success to find a review of this series and of the card I am interested in particular. Nor can I find any mention of it or its performance in a user forum anywhere. My display is a NEC2690 (26") running at a resolution of 1920x1200. I don't game and just want a new card for PS and Corel Painter work. I have CS3 and will probably move to CS4 idc. I also want a card that is passively cooled.
I'd be grateful if someone here would please look at this card and advise me whether this is a reasonable choice for Photoshop etc. It is expensive for what it is - especially as I don't run multi-displays - but allowing for all that, will CS3 etc be happy with it, please?
Thanks
David

Daniel
I bought an M9125. IQ is fine as expected and it works happily with CS3 and with my 26" NEC2690 display. I had some trouble loading a calibrated (Eye-One Display 2) profile after installing the Matrox driver, but eventually sorted it out. The software is rudimentary after Nvidia (eg you cannot get temp read outs) but functional. Would I recommend it? - IQ is ok but it's expensive for what you get and given the basic accompanying software. But overall - no complaints and Matrox tech support were helpful.

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Well, from what I understood in your post you want to crossfire two 3870 in a K9A Platinum. That's possible because it is a crossfire board and running two 3870 is just normal crossfire.
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Quote from: flobelix on 26-November-07, 18:51:32
Furthermore it is not 15% slower than 8800GT in almost every real game benchmark. Those cards are pretty equal with a little edge for the GT. Also you have to remember that nvidias 8800 drivers are final and tested to the bone and optimized. In addition Nvidia Forceware 169.xx leads to worse quality in Crysis and gets the 8800GT a nice performance enhancement at the cost of lower water details.
The ATi drivers are not the real final ones for 3870 because this card is not yet officially released.
So before you call someone a fanboy better check if you're maybe a fanboy yourself. I'm using nvidia vgas since 3dfx died and I never had a ATi vga but I must also say that 3870 is not a bad deal. It's real cheap and shows nice performance at good quality. Also it nicely benefits from a crossfire setup. That's why guys with crossfire boards (Like Aaron) would be stupid not to get a cheap 3870. For little money more a second one could be added which would lead to high end performance...
As you can see you don't need to be just a fanboy to decide for 3870!
But as you've been told before this thread is not intended for you to start a nvidia/ati fan war. It is just the announciation of the 3870.
By the way nvidia also plans to release a dual gpu GF8 as their next high end model...
1. Almost every official Benchmark out there showed a 15% difference on average in most major games.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/15/amd_radeon_hd_3800/page20.html#performance_roundup
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=6
I would not say that is a "slight edge". Pretty equal is far from the truth
2. The so called mythical "better image quality" supposedly achieved in the water reflection in Crysis was secondary to a Driver bug that was long fixed, and the quality is exactly equal in terms of water reflection, so no, 8800 GT does not lose in terms of official quality.
3. I don't know about you in Europe, but you can get the 8800Gt around $ 260 512 at stock speeds, but might need a week or 2 to deliver, and it will most definitely drop to around $240 by January, while the HD 3780 will be fixed at 220. Getting 15% extra performance for just 20-40 dollars is a most definitive choice.
4. You are ASSUMING that future ATI drivers will bring in better performance, which is absolutely not valid. Simply because you are never guaranteed such a boost. Saying it as if it is given fact is naive.
5. Nvidia does plan a dual GPU solution, but also has single GPU solutions that blow Crossfired 3870 out of this world, such as the upcoming G92 GTS. Not to mention, the Ultra is still there since 8 months , and it still dominates the super high end market.
6. I was a 3DFx user, and I still have my Voodoo 3 3000...
7. I never intended for an Nvidia vs ATI flame war, but expressed my opinion about those cards, while Aron and others replied with an inflamatory manner with accusations of fanboyism from the start.
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Dear all,
First off... sorry for the long story...
Somebody has to explain this to me as I do not know what is going on.
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