Aces want SUGGESTEIONS for their P review!

[az]

Ace's Hardware, easily one of the best hardware review sites around, if not the best, want suggestions for their Parhelia review! Ace's are known to produce in-depth reviews, looking beyond framerates, benchmarking not only with standard benchmarking software, but with a wide variety of games and professional software, and explain what the numbers mean, and what they mean for future titles.

I trust them more than any other hardware review site out there.

Go tell them what you want to see in their review here.

This might be the review everyone's been waiting for. After all, we knew it wasn't going to win the preformance crown in Q3A at 800x600 with medium details - now let's see if all is lost indeed, or if just all reviewers are stupid

AZ

[KeiFront]

[HaloFX]

Hopefully they will have the common sense to review it the way it should be, against workstion cards.

Their May 30th review of Proffesional cards was excellent.
Lets see how it stacks up to a $2000 Wildcat? or a $800 FireGL-2?
A $100 GeForce4MX will beat a Wildcat gaming, but we all know a MX is toast in AutoCAD.

[mikeul]

"Hopefully they will have the common sense to review it the way it should be, against workstion cards. "

I thought Parhelia was made for games, or else I don't see the point in Surround Gaming

[Cheesekeeper]

I've just posted there asking for a subjective comparison of the cards - ie which looksbest and smoothest, irrespective of framerate. If they can do that, it would answer a lot of questions.......

[Stringy]

The most interesting sat. or figure I'd be interested in is Min/Max frame rates for the games tested...

that and some PRo testing to see what the card can do in a Pro enviornment...
I'm not expecting huge numbers, but the raw performance of a demanding app would be insteresting to see compared to it's rivals..



Craig

[az]

Post not here, post there, if you want to see it in the review

You don't need to be registered to post, you don't even need to give your email - just type in your preferred user name and off you go!

Other than that, all that has been posted here has been posted there, too - and I have no doubt Johan will do it. Maybe he'll split it into more than one article, but that's fine with me

Note that to see some additional info, you'll have to purchase the .pdf version of Ace's articles (as they have some monetary problems), but the free versions are already way better and more in-depth than I have seen anywhere else on the net

AZ

[HaloFX]

Originally posted by mikeul
I thought Parhelia was made for games, or else I don't see the point in Surround Gaming

Surround Gaming is just a nice side effect of having 3 displays.

[Indiana]

I want benchies in high res (1600x1200x32Bit) with at 64tab anisotropic filtering. If the game is playable after adding FAA, then better. If not I'll probably just crank up the res a bit.
But unfortunately the Parhelias current drivers can't do good quality anisotropic, so they'll maybe have to focus on FAA.

[az]

Please, Indiana, post over there, not here

You don't need to register, and I doubt Johan is monitoring this thread here, as he doesn't know about it

They don't have the card yet, AFAIK, or have just gotten it, so there's a chance they are using newer drivers

AZ

[{PainCresT}DAn]

I asked Ace to give the test results from the high polygon count test in 3DMark 2001 SE... That test always killed any card I've seen run on it. Mind you I've never seen (sorry I mean touch ... did I say touch, I really mean feel, caress, fondle... oh I'm sorry did I say that out loud ) a Parhelia so I wouldn't know if it would do better than ATI/NV but since highpolygons requires high memory bandwith and since the P has almost double that of the GF4 Ti4600 I' quite confident that it would do that test MUCH better.

[TdB]

3dmark2001 highpolytest here:


it isn´t fast compared to the others with one light, but it doesn´t drop as much on 8 lights as the others either, I think this is yet another case of optimizing for worstcase scenarios.
I guess it will compare to high-end pro-cards, with 8+ lights, since the gf4ti and radeon8500 maxes out at 8 lights, while parhelia doesn´t have that limitation(AFAIK).