Editor's note: Matrox changed some product specifications after briefing PCWorld.com about its new product.

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If you own a Matrox card (G200, G400, and the like), then go with the Utah-GLX and Mesa CVS drivers.

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As for graphics performance, the Vectra uses a Matrox G200 graphics chip with 8MB of memory integrated on the motherboard.

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According to Matrox, the G450 chip that is the heart of the board is the most highly integrated graphics chip available.

CNN: New graphics card mimics VCR

Other software shipped with the board includes the Matrox Software DVD player, Ulead Photo Explorer 6.0, Windows Media Encoder, and a teletext browser.

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Gamers take note: AMD promises that optimized drivers will be available at launch from NVidia, 3dfx, and Matrox, with S3 and ATI drivers coming soon.

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Matrox PC-VCR 2.0, the included software used for TV recording, includes the capability to search for specific video using keywords in closed-captioning, as well as create text transcripts of shows.

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