OCWorkBench: Parhelia "Bomb of the Year"

[tmservo]

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00237/

OCWorkbench notes the following:

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Dog of the Year

Matrox Parhelia: Overpriced, underperforming, buggy. Didn't know about the buggy part? That's how fast it fell off the radar screen.

Do you have one? Doesn't anybody?

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[Slougi]

That is not ocworkbench

But I agree with them.

[K6-III]

It may be overpriced, but I wouldn't have gone for anything else....

[diewlei]

hafta agree on that.

[Tomasz]

Sad But True

[crow8k3a]

that site is a shaft, one of the most worthless sites i have seen in a long time. not for the parhelia only, but the other "reviews" they have done. waste of time.

[K6-III]

The only thing I use that site for is their overclocked CPU database...

[P5ycho]

they do have very good articles once in a while... and they are right this time, Parhelia just isn't what it's supposed to be.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Kinda agree with them about Parhelia... but if you use it with RTX, is a perfect suite. Triple monitor + TV on RTX100 is everybody's dream.

But about ATI... I won't really call them a winner personally. They still have a lot to do with their drivers. At least get them uninstall properly. Also almost every new Catalyst release my computer can't boot the first time after installation... but it may be just me thought. Oh well. Who cares. Oh yea my R8500, my first ATI card, will be the last ATI card I get unless they do something about their drivers. The uninstall is still giving me problems when i switch back my G550. **sigh**

Looser of the year

AMD: No Hammer, a Thoroughbred with a broken leg most of the year, and a Palominos inventory that is still in the wrong hands. Next year, a Hammer that is starting to look like too little, too late. They'll probably muddle through 2003, but in greatly weakened shape.

Personally I won't be getting a P4 after Hammer is out.

edit: but still congrats to ATI... at least they improved their drivers a long way. too bad R9700 can't do 128-bit internal colour precision

[crow8k3a]

that guy know nothing of what he is talking about, for one AMD has a uphill battle against the advertising monster of intel.

I can tell you this, in a few months we will hyperthreading will be laughable. Amd is picking up the ball soon and its gonna run with it. Can't tell you anymore tho.

yah the parhelia has problems, and they are working on most of the fixable ones. We all know the other manufacturers have their problems as well, this guy is all washed up.

i would personally rather pay 85 bucks for a 1.73 ghz, then pay more for soemthing that isn't as fast clock for clock.

[fleabus2]

Hi:

I've recently "gone over" to ATI (see sig). I've been updating their drivers as they've appeared and haven't had any issues. I'm running the following games at the highest resolutions the games allow, all the goodies turned on and no problems.

Full games:MOAAA, Bf1942, CFS3 (occasional stutter), IL-2 Sturmovik, Comanche 4.
Demos: RalliSport Challenge, Tiger Woods 2003, NASCAR RACING 2002 & 2003.

If ATI have current software problems, I haven't encountered any. I'd rather have software problems than hardware ones though. I go back some with Matrox. I started with their original Mystique PCI card when it first came out. All was just fine with the cards I bought from them until my G400Max "quit". I used my trusty ol' G200 Mystique 16MB until I could buy a Parhelia. The Parhelia worked for a few days and developed the purple text fuzzies on the desktop and red striping on the menu bars.
Good-bye Matrox hello ATI. I keep my desktops at 1600x1200 32bit 85Hz and I can't see a difference in 2D quality.
The Parhelia was Dog of the Year for me.

Happy trails,

[crow8k3a]

you got a bad card, it happens.

[fleabus2]

Hi:

Nope. I had two bad cards in a row. My G400Max died and the next card I bought was a Parhelia and it was bad too. That shouldn't happen.

[crow8k3a]

heh, that's 2 totally different cards , no correlation there at all :-p

[leech]

Originally posted by fleabus2
Hi:

Nope. I had two bad cards in a row. My G400Max died and the next card I bought was a Parhelia and it was bad too. That shouldn't happen.

That's like saying a fat blonde and a skinny brunette are the same at sex.

Leech