Matrox Pharelia 256 MB announced at SMAU 2002

[Haig]

what are the core and memory clocks???

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/series.cfm

[Greebe]

Wasn't this suppose to be an AGP8x part?... if so then why 4x as stated here?

[Sinistral]

- Meh didnt see this thread till after the other one.

$599US is a damn good price for the card of that Target market. I just hope they can get the Pro Certified Drivers performing within the parameters of the $800+ Quadro, FireGL, and Wildcat Cards. I hope Matrox can get Certified from Alias|Wavefront as well.

And if i see 1 complaint that this card is useless cause of no Win9x Support... . -

[candyman]

Does anyone know why they lowered the speed on the 256mb-card? Is it really necessary to run at 200Mhz in order to master 256 Mb of memory?

/ candyman

[Haig]

Wasn't this suppose to be an AGP8x part?...

Nope.

[R.Carter]

So, is the 256MB Parhelis going to be using the exact same core as the current shipping 128MB Parhelia cards?

Rather interesting that the PH-A256 is apparently going to be clocked at the 200MHz / 250MHz speeds.

I have a question though. Are the Parhelia OpenGL drivers 1.2 or 1.3 compliant? Did the card ship with 1.2 drivers and the latest driver package (1.02) have a OpenGL 1.3 compliant driver?

Does anyone know?

[K6-III]

The Parhelia drivers have been OpenGL 1.3 all along...

[Pace]

Designed for the most demanding 3D workstation users and priced at an unprecedented ESP of US$599, Matrox Parhelia 256MB provides the ultimate in productivity and image quality for the AEC, DCC, MCAD and GIS markets.

Does this mean that we won't see the 3D problems with windowed rendering etc?

[Surfwienix]

+ 128MB mem
+ 200$
- clock speed
- new features

good bye matrox!!!
:-(

[Amiga Blitter]

Yes, the NV30 is on the way.

[leech]

Originally posted by K6-III
The Parhelia drivers have been OpenGL 1.3 all along...

Actually I paid attention to this, I'm pretty sure that they were openGL 1.2 with the pre-1.1 drivers. Because I thought it was great, once the 1.1.x drivers came out, that they had upgraded to GL 1.3 specs, but if I'm absolutely wrong on this, I won't feel bad in the least

Leech

Edit: As a side note, 1.1 was the drivers that finally fixed Neverwinter Nights, that's why I was paying attention to the GL version.

[Kuba2k]

I was expecting some price drop
Parhelia is still to expensive for me. Yes, I have the money, but for the same money I can have more powerfull R9700

Does anybody know, If ATi has something like DVDMax? And how does it perform/work?

[UberLord]

Originally posted by Pace
Does this mean that we won't see the 3D problems with windowed rendering etc?

Well, if it's fixed with the card then we will know for sure if it's

1) Hardware problem
2) Driver problem

If it's not fixed then Matrox really have a serious QA problem :/

If it's a hardware problem with the 128 range then Matrox will have a lot of angry customers.

If it's a driver problem - then I'd assume that the new drivers would work on the 128 cards and everyones happy.

However, I'm guessing that it's a hardware problem based on the shear lack of response we've had about it. Even Haig's stopped bumping the thread in their tech support section.

[MetalCartman]

Does anybody know, If ATi has something like DVDMax? And how does it perform/work?

Yes, it's called "Theatre Mode".

It works ok so far, but Matrox has a much clearer image on TV and with ATi not all video applications can be minimized to the taskbar.

I have a Hercules FDX 8500LE 64MB now, it was cheap and I only need one monitor + TV...but my G400Max is still running in in my server!

When Parhelia came out, I didn't have the money for it. Now I have it, but will wait for the revisited version definitely.

Cheers,
Cartman

[Ryu Connor]

Matrox Parhelia
(PH-A256) 256 MB Retail 200 MHz 250 MHz $599 USD

Don't you mean 197/246 (492)?