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Sell your cards while you can
'cause mine just went for $305 on eBay 
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Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP. -
If we wait a year or two, you reckon we could do the Voodoo5 6000-like auctions?
1.73TBredB@1.67(166X10)@1.6V
ASUS A7N8X
Corsair 1GB PC3200
Parhelia 128MB
EIZO L685EX
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Funny thing is that the Parhelia will sell for more than anything ATI currently sells as time goes on, seeing how Matrox cards hold their value. I got my Parhelia for cheaper than that anyway...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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The <I>held</I> their value. That was back when they had quality products with quality support. Matrox has destroyed most of their reputation in the last year or two.Originally posted by K6-III
Funny thing is that the Parhelia will sell for more than anything ATI currently sells as time goes on, seeing how Matrox cards hold their value. I got my Parhelia for cheaper than that anyway...Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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So what are you gonna replace it with, Wombat? You aren't gonna stick with the Ti200 are you?Comment
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Yeah, I am, for now. I've got it running faster than a Ti500, and that's plenty of power for me lately. I've been playing Half-Life mods, and RTS games, and the Ti200 is plenty of horse for that. Unfortunately, the Parhelia wasn't, since the drivers suck ass.
Ti200 (even stock speeds): Natural Selection pegs at 72fps, 1280x960, 32bpp, 2xAA
Parhelia: Natural selection runs in the high twenties, and goes down to single-digit fps when things get busy, 1024x768, 16bpp, no AA.
And did I mention that the Parhelia runs Half-Life at 60Hz no matter what? I couldn't stand the headaches.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Probably a WinXP specific thing. Dunno, haven't played HL for quite awhile.Originally posted by Wombat
And did I mention that the Parhelia runs Half-Life at 60Hz no matter what? I couldn't stand the headaches.Comment
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It <I>might</I> be an XP thing, but ReForce set the monitor timings for me, and the GF3 obeyed them. The Parhelia did not.
It's any HL mod as well. CounterStrike, Natural Selection...that's why I was pissed about it.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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I found that a better program to use with the Parhelia was RefreshLock.Comment
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Didn't matter. I tried them both, and neither worked.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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I'm selling as soon as a decent card comes out to replace it, hopefully the geforceFX drivers are better that the 9700's...Comment
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Whats the deal with R9700....I have no problems here....Originally posted by P5ycho
I'm selling as soon as a decent card comes out to replace it, hopefully the geforceFX drivers are better that the 9700's...Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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I agree the Radeon 9700 ROCKS
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I hope the price of the 9700 will drop quite a bit when the GFFX is introduced, so i might get one myself
no matrox, no matroxusers.Comment
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Misinformation like that only leads everyone to suspect you don't know jackOriginally posted by P5ycho
I'm selling as soon as a decent card comes out to replace it, hopefully the geforceFX drivers are better that the 9700's... My (far-too-rich) friend has two machines with new kit - both 9700's - and he's had zero issues.
Cheers, RecklessComment
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