Don't beat me! P. driver question

[afterburn]

Like I said, don't beat me. Is there anyone here that can make any comments to me about driver stability of the Parhelia on a DUAL cpu config? I'm ready to buy/order, I will have to wait (or even go somewhere else in the most extreme case) if driver issues prevend me to run a stable system on my dual amd rig. My good ole G400 does great, but P is a different card with different drivers and I refuse to through ordeals like some of the ATI boys have gone through/are going through. I dont have the time for that, nor can I afford to have my system go down on me at random intervals.

Any of the BBz that can make any comment? Please?

[ALBPM]

I can't remember which of us has a dual system. I don't see why there would be any problems with a Dual System.

What mother board and other hardware do you have in your setup???

Paul

[Fenrir(AVA)]

Wondering same thing, I have MSI K7D-Master, AMD 2000+ MP and 2 gigs of RDRAM. Any ideas if the drivers are stable under SMP solutions?

[P5ycho]

Maybe Haig can help you out, since he knows what boards have been tested with @ Matrox HQ?

[afterburn]

I have a Tyan Thunder K7, 2x Athlon-MP 1.2, 4x 512MB PC2100, using onboard scsi (adaptec) and lan (3com), TBSC. Think that pretty much sums it up for the important parts.

[CaineTanathos]

first ATI sux,

second the drivers of the parhelia will not be multithreaded , but they will work stable,

I asked it once at matrox.com

[afterburn]

Never owned ATI other than the onboard rage chips, so no comment there. Its a good sign that they will run stable according to Matrox, however 'will' and 'are' are two different things. That could be handing them my money now or in 6 months. If someone, be it BBz, Haig or someone else can confirm, it will mean one less worry for me and a step closer to owning a P.

[AlgoRhythm]

It would appear that Elie has a Dual Athlon 1800 with a Parhelia and the RT.X100....


AlgoRhythm

[Kruzin]

As Paul said, one or two of the BBz are running dual processor rigs. I can't recall seeing anyone report problems to the beta list regarding this sort of set up...

[Fenrir(AVA)]

Great! I am all geared up and ready for the parhelia.

[afterburn]

Hmm.. just cleaned my glasses. That definately improved visuall quality of my crappy gf3, but it still sucks. :P

Lets see if i can get a hold of Elie.

[afterburn]

Kruzin: thank you! That definately is a mind easing comment .

[Elie]

Hi Guys,

Yes I'm the one running Dual AMD 1800+ on a Tyan S2460 without any issues regarding P.

Currently I'm editing using RT.X100 and Parhelia in TH mode, no problems to report.

What specifically where you looking for?

Regards,
Elie

[Fenrir(AVA)]

The issue I was thinking about if the card ran stable in SMP systems, I have personally have had problems with ATI and Nvidia cards in SMP systems a few times. Just glad to know it runs stable, can not wait for the parhelia to be sent, just upgraded my shiping to next day air!

[afterburn]

Same here. Though i never had an ATI card, it took me (read nvidia!) about 6 months before I had a driver for that GF3 that ran stable on my dual. Nightmares from just rebooting by itself to the infamous nv_disp infinite loop error come to mind. In that respect, my good ole G400 was a relief too, since it is so wonderfully stable. Just dont want to go back to the nightmare seen with nvidia. (or heard of with ATI)