What does the Parhelia 512 look like ?

[VJ]

We all have seen the pictures of the alpha-board (with the large heatsink), but are there any pictures of the production board ?

How is a TV connected to it ? Using a dongle on the DVI ?

(just curious for the heatsink, ...)
Jörg

[Greebe]

Dongles... no pics of a production version are available yet... possible very Soon™ tho

[VJ]

Would that mean that you'd have to change cable-connections just to switch from e.g. 3 monitors to some setup with a TV-out ?


Jörg

[Dr Mordrid]

Ever hear of a switchbox?

Dr. Mordrid

[[GDI]Raptor]

Originally posted by Greebe
Dongles... no pics of a production version are available yet... possible very Soon™ tho

Oh No!! Not the Soon™ again!!!!

[Biggs]

Ok...

Seems like everyone wants the benchmarks but in my case, all I want to know is...

...will it come with a fan?

I'd really hope that it doesn't as it would add unnecessary noise in my already quiet system.

Cheers!

[Tempest]

Re: Ok...

Originally posted by Biggs
...will it come with a fan?

Haig says yes. This is logical, because the transistor count is high and the card is based on an 0.15 um manufacturing process. They will probably move into a smaller process later (next year or so)... At that time the lower clocked versions could have a chance of operating without a cooling fan.

[Biggs]

Awwww...

Shucks! You've got a good point there, my friend. Can't they use a Zalman flower-type heatsink instead?

[borat]

i was wondering the same thing with the zalman myself, i was thinking about attatchnig 2 zalmans to a copper base and placing the copper base on the chip itself and then having a very quiet voltage controlled fan blowing air over them which would be near enough silent after you put the case on, wonder if its possible with already available cardslike geforce 4 or radeon 8500?
anybody tried something similar?

[xortam]

HSF

The HT folks had already started talking about dumping the fan and lowering the clock frequency and/or water cooling to quiet the card.

[Parhelia Pro256]

Anything is possible

i was wondering the same thing with the zalman myself, i was thinking about attatchnig 2 zalmans to a copper base and placing the copper base on the chip itself and then having a very quiet voltage controlled fan blowing air over them which would be near enough silent after you put the case on, wonder if its possible with already available cardslike geforce 4 or radeon 8500?
anybody tried something similar?

[VJ]

Dr. Mordid:

Yes, but ever heard of a high quality switchbox ? Which make me wonder... Does image quality degrades enormously when switching dvi-signals (as opposed to vga) ?

Also, it is still unclear what this switchbox ought to switch: is it sufficiant to have a 1 dvi -> 2 dvi box (1 for dvi/vga to monitor, the other for tv) ?


Jörg

[K6-III]

Switching digital signals should have absolutely no effect on image quality.

Switching analog will have an effect regardless.

[Yannick]

Originally posted by ralf
I´ve always wondered why they make the cards upside-down.

Not only does heat move upwards, the layout of the ATX board would make cooling easier.

I suppose that AGP cards were oriented this way to be like PCI cards. As for PCI cards... I remember that some older motherboards had a "PCI/ISA" slot. There was a PCI connector just next to a ISA connector. Because ISA cards are "upside-up", those two connectors shared the same bracket. You had to choose between an ISA or a PCI card.

Maybe that's the only reason.

I remember that I heard a few years ago about a project to rearrange ATX boards to have the AGP card the other way round, so that a simple heatsink on the GPU would benefit from the CPU's fan.

[moreau]

Originally posted by ralf
Not only does heat move upwards...

Um, no.

Dr. Moreau