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I have just jumped ship to a nice 3DForce GeForceFX 5600 Ultra.
I must say, I am quite impressed with this 190 dollar card. (256MB)
In the 3dmark 03 scenes it scores 28-31 and then 35 in the nature scene.
W/Unreal 2 at 1280x1024 w/4xFSAA and 4x anisotropic it gets an avg of 32 through the demo.
The 2D is a far cry from where the 9700 and GeForce4 series are.
It beats out ATI's, and comes quite close to Matrox's. When I hook up a DVI monitor to it, I'd say it nudges just a hair ahead of matrox.
So, better quality, better speed, better drivers, better dual display. There is only one thing the Parhelia has, and that's triplehead. But given the performance and playability in the Doom3 alpha on it vs the Parhelia, Matrox is a serious loser.
Pitou better get out the door soon. Parhelia's just a triplehead card with no purpose.
Triplehead on UT2k3 is kind of a joke due to the low resolutions you need to go to get it playable, and by then the "image quality" aspect of the Parhelia is a joke.
Pixellated triplehead is just not as good as clean fast crisp singlehead.
You have to use a shotgun because you certainly can't snipe in triplehead.
Whereas, on this sub 200 dollar video card with roughly 3x the performance annihilates every selling point at a lower price except triplehead. Which to be perfectly honest, I would rather buy a GeForce2 PCI card, and then run triplehead desktop through that if I need triplehead that bad, would be faster anyway.
Btw, this cheap A$$ card has pixelshader 2.0, and costs alot less......that post by Vigilante on the hardware engineer throwing a dart at the board really makes alot of sense for why Matrox has what it has out right now.
I must say, I am quite impressed with this 190 dollar card. (256MB)
In the 3dmark 03 scenes it scores 28-31 and then 35 in the nature scene.
W/Unreal 2 at 1280x1024 w/4xFSAA and 4x anisotropic it gets an avg of 32 through the demo.
The 2D is a far cry from where the 9700 and GeForce4 series are.
It beats out ATI's, and comes quite close to Matrox's. When I hook up a DVI monitor to it, I'd say it nudges just a hair ahead of matrox.
So, better quality, better speed, better drivers, better dual display. There is only one thing the Parhelia has, and that's triplehead. But given the performance and playability in the Doom3 alpha on it vs the Parhelia, Matrox is a serious loser.
Pitou better get out the door soon. Parhelia's just a triplehead card with no purpose.
Triplehead on UT2k3 is kind of a joke due to the low resolutions you need to go to get it playable, and by then the "image quality" aspect of the Parhelia is a joke.
Pixellated triplehead is just not as good as clean fast crisp singlehead.
You have to use a shotgun because you certainly can't snipe in triplehead.
Whereas, on this sub 200 dollar video card with roughly 3x the performance annihilates every selling point at a lower price except triplehead. Which to be perfectly honest, I would rather buy a GeForce2 PCI card, and then run triplehead desktop through that if I need triplehead that bad, would be faster anyway.
Btw, this cheap A$$ card has pixelshader 2.0, and costs alot less......that post by Vigilante on the hardware engineer throwing a dart at the board really makes alot of sense for why Matrox has what it has out right now.
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