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Matrox DualHead2Go Digital SE Unboxing and Overview

2012-07-27
what's up everybody welcome back once again detector tomorrow you guys know me I'm Mel Eric your host behind the camera we got Jesus point Oh now Matrox is a company that back in the day I used to use the out of their car dude before the big 3d gaming rage came on matrix was one of the most highly respected and actually biggest video card companies in the world so pre Nvidia days you know was back in everybody is doing stuff like rendering movies odd stuff this company was huge they still make cards but you only see these cards now in very very expensive machines but they're in the market with a really neat product and this is their matrix dual head to go you guys are probably asking what the heck's a dual head to go do I get two heads on my shoulder you know walking evil man no it's nothing so cool like that but it is pretty cool what it is is basically you take you to your laptop or your PC and you can use two monitors off this box so if your card already had like you had a flex card you had five monitors out of it you could hook up to this another two monitors and increase your monitors also it supports monitors up to the new 4k resolutions you get 4096 by like twenty-something resolution it's incredible all you really do is you plug it in and then it splits the monitor it's like if you had a laptop you can put your laptop in the center take two 27 inch monitors on the side and then have 3-way monitors all from your laptop so let's check it out I don't know there's two really too much to unbox I think there's just one little seal here so I'm gonna take my trusty little knife click it open take a little incision here all very simply done there don't want to wreck the bolts the walks make my incision throw the knife at the cameraman but did that whatever lookin camera man i'ii be dead yes sometimes man's got to know his limitations and mine is stabbing the cameraman he told me wouldn't take that pisses me off you should take it in stride but nope so check it out two cables DisplayPort huh little end cap off DisplayPort cable I was that same connection on every end bloodied up but that little plastic thing back on there it'll go on there there it goes okay and then we got the USB cable so these two cables right here they're going to plug into the back of your system one into your video card and then one into your computer actually this is your power then obviously and then we have a little box right here I think that I will show you then a second TZ TZ TZ and then we have the matrix graph expansion module this is the drivers all that stuff says made in Hong Kong by Hong Kong Phooey do you guys remember him give me a thumbs up it shows your age of doing long time buoy is though so I'll take this first two items and we will go ahead I will sit them back here in the table behind me we thought you guys were getting bored of doing the three monitor videos so we thought we've changed up and give you guys something else but there's an instruction guides all the way through here how to hook up your gxm product and all that stuff so it's all in there and then last but not least we have the little box itself that little looks there ain't a bin quite a boom all right yeah no no new car smell plus the box and let me get it by the camera so you guys can see this so we'll start off and show you the top then we'll turn around we'll show you the connection the back you can see this is where the two DVI connections are flip it around the other side there's your USB in the DisplayPort and the nomenclature and everything is on the bottom and that's pretty much it folks I mean it's a pretty basic product it's $180 you can buy it anywhere out there and it's a really cool product more I think for somebody who is traveling a lot and wants to use like monitors all the plays you like plug into a TV that's why I think it's more about better for like you know if you were like good a hotel room or something you travel a lot you could pop it in you could use their TV and use another monitor I don't know it's got its uses the DisplayPort having DisplayPort connection means that not too many laptops right now are going to be geared to use this on Macs they're using the new you know Thunderbolt and most the pcs at HDMI but almost every single solitary video card that's in a computer is going to have this type of connection so 280 bucks you want to hook up more monitors to off of this you can use whatever existing monitors off your card and you're good to go dual head to go display by the people who are matrix will check you brothers out here later
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