Parhelia Price & release dates

[Rob M.]

Asked a Matrox rep today at the AMD Tech tour in Toronto, his answer was that it was becoming clear that the price will be $400 US, and that it will be announced (as a product) this month, with availability mid-July. I was also told to expect availability to ramp up as normal new product releases from Matrox.

And the big dissapointment for me at the show was their demo was broken, the rep was blaming the video card directly. It was an engineering sample, the one with the monster heatsink you've all seen pictures of.

I did get a 4-page marketing guide, but I don't believe it offered any new information that we haven't seen yet. I can scan the pages in if someone's interested. My personal website won't take too much abuse though, it is 4 full pages of info, so I would need another server to host it probably.

[Greebe]

What was wrong with the demo or did he just not show it?

[Rob M.]

The machine and the monitors were there and all hooked up, but it was all off. There were a number of offers to help fix it, but all the Matrox guy would say was that it was broken, and that it was definately the video card itself that was the problem.

[Kosh Naranek]

I simply don't get it !

Why are review dates kept as such a BIG secret ?

I mean, it's not secret that P will be coming out and it's features are no secret either.

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MID JULY with MATROX RAMPING ...arrrghhh this prolly means I won't get a P before sometime mid/late august ....

un-acceptable .... hmmm ...UT2003 here I come with my shiny new .. ehh ... oh ...maybe I could ...

[Edward]

Well, I would love to see some numbers now, an Unreal2002 benchmark would be nice.

I thought that today the NDA was lifted?

[Greebe]

Unreal 2002, what's that?

[Edward]

QUOTE]Originally posted by Greebe
Unreal 2002, what's that? [/QUOTE]

Never heard of the Unreal2002 performancetest?

Anandtech always use this benchmark for modern videocards en CPU's:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1635&p=12

[Cobos]

Actually he usus the Unreal 2003 performance test... I suppose Wombat is just being a little annoying

Cobos

[Kosh Naranek]

Laugh all you want ... I think the joke is about to turn !

[Edward]

No it's not UT2003 or Unreal2 either, it's a heavy demoscene called Unreal Performancetest 2002, based on the latest Unrealengine build (928 now?), which Epic&DE made for 3Dcardvendors to test.

It's a very complex demo which is not representive for the GFX in UT2003 and Unreal2, I know what UT2003 is

[BuddMan]

He said the demo was broken and it was the video card's fault??? Geeze, what a great demo. I wonder if he'll keep his job after this...

I also thought the NDA was supposed to be lifted today. I was expected at least some new info on the P sometime this afternoon...

[Wombat]

It wasn't me!

[Rick]

He said it was "hardware" but he didn't specify if it was the system itself or the card. Said the 128mb is first with a MSRP of US$400, couple to 3 months later the 64mb version will hit the shelves at abotu US$200. He also mentioned that the pathway on that card gets cut in half in order to keep costs down.

[Rob M.]

He was saying it was the card itself when I was there. Regardless it doesn't really matter except to those of us who missed the demonstration because of it

[BuddMan]

Well I thought the NDA was lifted on Friday, but I guess I was wrong?? Did they extend it further?