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M9120-E512LAU1F | Matrox PCIe x1 512MB Graphics Card M Series, DDR2 Memory, DVI, VGA Output

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RS Stock No.:: 666-7814
Mfr. Part No.:: M9120-E512LAU1F
Manufacturer:: Matrox

COO (Country of Origin):: CN

Technical data sheets

docPdfMatrox M-Series User Guide
docPdfMatrox M-Series Data Sheet

Legislation and Compliance

COO (Country of Origin):: CN

Product Details

Matrox M9120 Plus LP PCIe x1

The M9120 Plus LP PCIe x1 512MB low-profile, quad-upgradeable, DualHead® graphics card with advanced desktop management support to drive business applications with exceptional performance

Matrox DualHead® technology with support for two digital or analogue monitors at a time
Upgradable to quad analogue display using optional quad output upgrade cable
512 MB frame buffer supports up to four displays at 128MB per channel
PCI Express card compatible with all compliant PCI Express slots (PCIe x1, x4, x8 & x16)
Low-profile form factor to fit in a wider variety of systems
Passive cooling for silent operation and extra reliability
Easy-to-use Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software
3 year manufacturers warranty

Specifications

Attribute	Value
Interface	PCIe x1
Chipset Manufacturer	Matrox
GPU Series	M Series
Memory Type	DDR2
Memory Size	512MB
Video Output	DVI, VGA
Video Memory	512 → 896MB

We put the second video card in the PCI-Express x1 slot / Sudo Null IT News and regular-sized video cards will not fit into numerous PCI Express X1 slots due to connector incompatibility.

Not everyone knows that it is actually possible to install a long X16 connector in a short slot, so it is not necessary to buy another and more expensive motherboard for the 3rd monitor. This article is devoted to ways to expand the potential capabilities of a computer, and it also dispels doubts and fears that something will not work when finalizing the board with a file. An hour of work — and the 3rd monitor will be connected to your system. nine0003
The problem of installing 2 video cards exists due to the fact that most PCI-Express x1 slots have a plastic edge at the end farthest from the computer case wall, and video cards do not have a slot for compatibility with the edge. As shown below, the problem is solved by simply cutting through this ledge.

What is it for?

1) For installing a 3rd monitor in the system.

There are, of course, solutions with a 3rd monitor without connector surgeries. nine0003 1.1) Buy a budget type motherboard with a video connector installed on the board. Attention! You need to be sure that the BIOS of the board does not automatically disable the on-board video if it sees an installed video card. For some, especially budget motherboards, such a solution is found. How to make sure that the embedded video is not disabled? Most likely, only installation experience (video cards and 2 video drivers), because they may not write about this in the instructions for the board. (For example, I once connected 3 monitors to a budget Intel board (on the G31) to test, but Gigabyte’s budget boards with 2 RAM slots had an option to automatically disable integrated graphics.)
(fig.1)
1.2) Buy a video card with a PCI-Express x1 slot. There are few such cards, but they exist. news.softportal.com/nitem-5729.html, www.oszone.net/print/9646, www.oszone.net/11230/Club3D_PCIe_x1_Radeon_HD_4350.
(fig. 2)
1.3) Buy a motherboard with 2 or more PCI-Express x16 slots (many boards are not in the lower price category).
(Fig. 3)
1.4) Cut off excess textolite from the video card, as, for example, here:
www.invisiblerobot.com/pcie_x1
(fig. 4)
(to some extent a joke — why spoil the video card, but they did it here too:
www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/22289.shtml )
1.5) Don’t bother too much, but buy a motherboard with more PCI- Express x16 slots:
(fig. 5)
(an even bigger joke).

All methods involve material costs and a more limited choice of configuration options. If you already have a board with a free PCI-Express x1 slot and a video card with a PCI-Express x16 slot, it’s easier to do as described below. nine0007

Method 1.6) Make a slot on any PCIe X1 slot suitable for installing a video card.
(fig. 6)

The specification calls for the expansion card’s power and ground lines to be included, even if fewer connections are used. Therefore, theoretically, after connecting, we can get problems due to incomplete connection to the power supply, but in practice there are none, because all the power lines on the video card are simply combined into one, and on low-power video cards (not higher than 3850), the power supply currents and frequencies do not large enough to be critical. (There is an adapter uk.startech.com/product/PEX1TO16-PCI-Express-x1-to-Low-Profile-x16-Slot-Extension-Adapter to solve the problem, but you won’t need it.) At least you can hope so, and there is no reason to turn on more powerful video cards this way, because the limited bus bandwidth begins to affect them (at the end of the article there is a link that answers the question of what power video card is reasonable to install in PCIe X1, and if in 2 words, then nothing we lose for video cards of the GF8600GT/ATI 2600XT level). And the card becomes heavy, which is dangerous for the integrity of such a small connector. nine0003

UPD 10/2/2010 13:25 Readers in the comments recalled several more ways to connect the 3rd monitor, from the well-known ancient to the new.
1.7) Buy a PCI video card. This is how monitors were connected in the days of AGP and earlier. Such cards exist not only very old ones — there are enterprising manufacturers that now produce them on modern chips (usually at fantastic prices):
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www3.pny.com/8400-GS-512MB-PCI-Low-Profile-P2679C269.aspx

Exception: as reader Silent forest pointed out, the result cannot be achieved if the PCI card and the PCI-Express card are from the same VNidia company due to the banal non-support of the driver for the old NVidia card at the same time as the new one (installing ATI PCI- Express resolved the conflict). Buy USB 2.0 to VGA adapter0003 www.nix.ru/autocatalog/adapters_switches/STLab_U470_USB_to_VGA_Adapter_88604.html
www.nextag.com/Startech-USB2VGAE2-USB-To-669150066/prices-html
(Probably there are problems with drivers for non-mass operating systems.)
1.9) Use ATI Eyefinity technology DisplayPort connector) — for those who want to financially support the development of innovative technologies 🙂
www.amd.com/ru/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx
www.nix.ru/computer_hardware_news/hardware_news_viewer. html?id=159707&page=10

2) For connecting video cards in Crossfire mode.

Strictly speaking, special motherboards are provided for this mode. But, perhaps, the solution will work with any pair of PCIe slots (not tested).

Connector refinishing process.

Before work, make sure that there is really free space on the motherboard for installing a free-hanging «tail» of the PCI-Express x16 connector. There may be parts (capacitors, other connectors) that, at best, can be soldered by placing them in a different position. nine0007

Cutting through the wall is quite simple, but requires a few technical points in terms of the accuracy of the operation.
1) it is better to remove the motherboard from the case, since careless movement can damage the integrity of the connector or surrounding parts;
2) cutting should be done in such a way that the plastic of the connector at the base does not crack. Therefore, do not use wire cutters, cut with a sharp scalpel or utility knife blade, scraping in small pieces or with a dremel (bur machine with a circular saw or emery disc installed), but be careful not to damage the contacts. Violation of the integrity of the plastic can also lead to separation of contacts, an unreliable connection. nine0003
3) when cutting off pieces of plastic with a sharp knife, you should be very careful not to cut off the springy contacts, which are literally a millimeter away from the operation site. If you cut with a non-sharp knife, the procedure takes 25-30 minutes, and the contacts are likely to be more protected because a non-sharp blade will not cut them. In practice, I have one contact bent inward, into the space for the textolite of the card, but then I managed to bend it back.
4) cut the plastic to the level of the bottom of the connector; the photo shows the process of successive scraping of the connector wall to the desired depth:
(Fig. 7)
5) before installing the video card, carefully check that the contacts are not bent inward and the video card will not damage them.
6) when installing a video card, check whether the exposed video card connector touches conductive surfaces (radiators, parts). If there is such a danger, isolate the connector or surfaces with at least adhesive tape or thick paper attached to the card.
(Fig. 8)

7) After installing the 2nd video card, fix it to the case, since the attachment point for one small PCIe slot is quite dangerous for the integrity of the slot itself. nine0007

In practice, I ignored recommendation (1), because there was enough space for work inside the case and I used a non-sharp second-hand blade. I blew the shavings from the inside of the connector through a tube from a ballpoint pen (using office tools).
(Fig. 9)
Such an insignificant set of tools (a blade, a tube, possibly tape) and about an hour of installation time is a small price to pay for the ability to connect a 3rd monitor. Maybe it will turn out to be superfluous, but it will not be superfluous to check the convenience of working with it and without it. nine0003 (fig. 10)

An example of the process of cutting through the wall of the connector , filmed using a heated kitchen knife blade: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBD-M_STsc (other author; video posted on YouTube 19.10 .2009).
(Fig. 11)
This method will also lead to results, even faster by 10 minutes, but the “cold” method is more convenient because the plastic does not deform and there is no need to clean off the sags, leading to a presentable appearance.

Another solution example through a PCI Express x1 to PCI Express x16 adapter extension cable — in the article by the author of SilentF people.overclockers.ru/SilentF/record4.
(UPD 2017-10: the link has become unavailable, but there is another one — how to make such an adapter yourself by soldering a wire loop)
(Fig. 10a)
The issue is also resolved here, the unresolved of which can lead to the video card not starting up: the PRSNT #2 pin at the end of the PCIe x16 connector is connected to the same signal on the PCIe x1 connector. It is responsible for determining whether the card is fully inserted into the slot: if the card is not fully inserted, a certain PRSNT (Piin-based Presence Detector) bit of the hardware register says “0” — “not inserted”. If these lines are not closed on the video card, without this refinement, the register will still mark: “not inserted”, and we can check what the system decides based on it. In any case, the absence of a signal should not lead to unstable operation: it affects this hardware bit, and the transition from 0 to 1 also creates a hardware interrupt (hot plug of the expansion card — “insert during operation”). What it does in the system, whether it is blocked (in theory, it should, because PCIe is not a “hot-plug” connector in a computer) is also not known, but experience shows that the 8300GS video card works in PCIe x1 without a jumper. (If there is a suspicion of incorrect operation due to PRSNT #2, you can make a jumper with a thin wire directly on the video card.)

Installing a 3rd monitor in the system (Windows XP)

When you turn on the computer, the second card does not receive a video signal at first, the display reports an unconnected cable. The operating system detects the video card without any problems and connects the driver if it is a card from the same manufacturer as the first one previously installed. WinXP asks to restart itself after auto-installing the driver without any special steps to do so. After the restart, the system began to see the monitor on the second video card, and the monitor detected a cable connection. nine0003 (fig. 12)
(Interestingly, the 2nd monitor on the 1st video card was numbered third in the system.)

After activating the monitor in the display properties (you may need to run the Monitor Connection Wizard, depending on the driver), the desktop background appears on it.
(Fig. 13)
It remains to adjust the resolution and connection frequency. When installing a CRT monitor, do not forget to set the refresh rate to at least 70 Hz, so as not to use the default 60 Hz. For LCD monitors, this action is not necessary. nine0003 (Fig. 14)
If the chip manufacturers (NVidia, ATI, Matrox) are different, you need to install a second driver — usually, according to reviews from other articles, they get along together (UPD: according to Jeditobe and guessss_who, Windows Vista does not support drivers from different video card manufacturers at the same time. XP and Win7 does not suffer from this.). In the display settings, the required number of additional monitors is connected from the system. Result:

(Fig. 15)

In other articles, there have been repeated performance measurements of video cards on the PCI-Express x1 connector, in which it is shown that all video cards of the level below ATI 3850 / GF 9800 in any modes and games behave almost the same compared to the PCI-Express x16 connector — they have enough data flow limit through 1 PCI-Express channel, equal to 250 MB / s in one direction (500 MB / s in both directions).

Here is an article that examines the performance drop by 15-20% in tests on ATI 3850 with PCIe x1, x4, x8, x16.
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-2.0,1915-9.html
On GF 9800 GX2:
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-2.0.1915-10.html
The article is large; different pages describe how the experiments were set up.

Conclusions

If the video card does not have gaming tasks or it is low-power, then the PCIe x1 solution will almost not be inferior to other solutions with a more expensive motherboard (except for some very demanding applications like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Crysis, Call Of Duty four).

GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 graphics card

NVIDIA
nine0162 GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

PCIe 2.0 x1 interface
Core clock 810 MHz
Video memory size 512 MB
Memory type DDR3
Memory frequency 1000 MHz
Maximum resolution

Description

NVIDIA started GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 sales 2 April 2012. This is Fermi 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. It has 512 MB of DDR3 memory at 1 GHz, and together with a 64-bit interface, this creates a throughput of 8,000 Gb / s. nine0007

In terms of compatibility, this is a single-slot PCIe 2.0 x1 card. The length of the reference version is 145 mm. An additional power cable is not required for connection, and the power consumption is 29 W.

We don’t have any test results for the GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1.

General information

Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1, as well as when sales started and cost at the time. nine0003 (10 years ago) Price now 52 $ of 499999 (A100 SXM4)

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GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak of GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results. nine0200

Compatibility and dimensions

Information on GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply). nine0200 Memorial capacity 8.000 GB/s of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Video outputs

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Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

APIs supported by GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1, including their versions.

Video connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

HDMI +

5.1
5

DirectX 12 (11_0)

Sheder Model OpenGL 4.6

OpenCL 1. 1

Vulkan N/A

CUDA 2.1

Benchmark tests

These are the results of GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment. nine0007

We don’t have any test results for the GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1.

AMD competitor

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 from AMD is Radeon HD 8400E.

Radeon HD
8400E

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Recommended Processors

According to our statistics, these processors are most often used with the GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1.

Pentium
E5700

2.6%

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Core 2
Duo E8400

2.6%

Athlon 64
X2 5200+

2.6%

Phenom II
X4 810

2.6%

Core 2
Duo E4400

1.8%

Ryzen 5
3600

1.8%

Core i7
3770

1.8%

Core i5
3470

1.8%

Core 2
Duo E7500

1.8%

Core i3
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M9120-E512LAU1F | Matrox PCIe x1 512MB Graphics Card M Series, DDR2 Memory, DVI, VGA Output

Technical data sheets

Legislation and Compliance

Product Details

Matrox M9120 Plus LP PCIe x1

Specifications

We put the second video card in the PCI-Express x1 slot / Sudo Null IT News and regular-sized video cards will not fit into numerous PCI Express X1 slots due to connector incompatibility.

GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 graphics card

Description

General information

Compatibility and dimensions

Video outputs

Benchmark tests

AMD competitor

Other video cards

Recommended Processors