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What do you mean 'what that is(was)'? I wouldn't think matrox would be hiding anything since this is the period where they are trying to 'convert' ATI and nVidia users, so they would want to show the best card possible in the previews, wouldnt they?
The_King, that chip we're talking about was populated on some of the alpha boards we saw, not on others, and won't be on the retail boards, as confirmed by Haig, Tech Support Manager at Matrox. No one is allowed to comment on what it is/was though, maybe because it might be used in a future version, or maybe there will be Marvel cards again, or... you get it?
Would be THE major selling point for Matrox, but since headcasting was such a failure, they seem unwilling to implement it... would need huge buffers for games like tomb raider anyway, so it might only be used for the 256 MB model...
About this card: I really hope they will arrange that wire: I saw some retail mainboards and videocards (matrox also) with wires on it. That's ugly.
Now: it's working, but there's a better solution: modify the circuit-board and add that forgotten lead.
Originally posted by TDB maybe some sort of bist-chip(built in self test), or perhaps something that might be used in the rt3000 version of the parhelia.
Think about that you just wrote - if it's a BUILT IN self test, then the testing circuitry would be BUILT IN to the Parhelia core, would it not? Not external to the core!
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