VigilAnt Rant and Some Observations

[ganyaik]

VigilAnt: Do you know more "good news" about MGI? Don't have to go into details. I'm just looking for a replacement for my aging G200 and I'd like to know whether I should/can buy a Matrox card in near future or not.

[VigilAnt]

Originally posted by GT98


I'm guessing it something along the lines of a Parhelia/RT.x combo....basicly a very high end Video editing card?

Wrong Matrox division. MGI doesn't make those boards. Look for something more like a high powered G550 with triple head

VigilAnt

[MetalCartman]

*AAARRRGH*

[Pace]

Well, that's actually good news for me. I'd love a triple head workstation card - it's that, or G450/550 PCI or MMS

However, my workstation card...will not have banding. Still awaiting to see what this basic Parhelia/whatever will contain. Hopefully I'll hear some news Soon™

P.

[ElDonAntonio]

do we get triple headcasting?

[crow8k3a]

i don't see why matrox thinks they should deviate from the parhelia. It has everything i want, altho it has a few bugs, in my opinion no other card can touch it , including radeon 9700 and prolly the nvidia card coming out. i hope someone can talk some sense into them that people want a 3d card, but also how the power of a professional 2d card and more.

i hope someone has some good news soon.

[UtwigMU]

high powered G550 would be good if it would have been price performance competitive. For cashflow you need to have competitive cards in all segments.

Like FireGL X1 / 9700 / 9500 / 8500 / 9000 / 7500 / Radeon / Rage

Ati has upper leg not only because of 9700 (launched first to gather press) but because of 9500 vs 4200 or 9000 vs 460.

or Quadros / 4800? / 4600 / 4400 / 4200 / 4MX / 2MX / TNT

now Matrox: Parhelia 256 vs FireGL X1 / Quadro4 or Wildcat, Parhelia128 vs Radeon9700 / Ti 4600 and G550 vs 8500/9000/4200 (same price segments)

[ElDonAntonio]

You're damn right crow8ka!! I agree 100%. The parhelia revision and P II sound like really good ideas. I hope they'll stick to it!

[crow8k3a]

thanks :-p, i don't like to compromise 3d for 2d, or vice versa, but w/ matrox right now i can have both, and i'd like to keep it that way for the future

[brokenwallet]

All this 'Matrox is done in 3d' talk made me wonder if Matrox is going to license their reference P and P2 designs to the taiwanese card makers.

Who knows, maybe the current Matrox made Parhelias are like a production test run. And now that the bugs are figured out (fixed), Matrox can license the P 8x to the card makers.

I don't know, just seems too early for Matrox to give up on Parhelia.

[Goc]

Personaly I would hate seeing Matrox chips on Taiwan boards... 2D quality would definitely go down the drain, and with it what's left of Matrox's reputation...

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Goc
Personaly I would hate seeing Matrox chips on Taiwan boards... 2D quality would definitely go down the drain, and with it what's left of Matrox's reputation...

I thought the quality had gone down with the banding issue already. Okay is reportly fixed but only time will tell.

[Slougi]

Originally posted by The PIT


I thought the quality had gone down with the banding issue already. Okay is reportly fixed but only time will tell.

Since when is it fixed?

[Wombat]

It's not "fixed." Matrox's only comment was that it was "normal."

[ElDonAntonio]

I think he meant it'll be fixed in the hypothetical Parhelia revision.