My 10 days experience with the 9700 pro

[crow8k3a]

umm, i don't see why everyone is complaining about CS and the parhelia, i have the parheliea and i play cs all the time and it plays great, and i'm usually on the top or towards the top of the ranks.

[dZeus]

does it run as fast as on a GF3 as on your P? Did you compare both on the same system?

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by 3dfx
In that case go back to your geforce 3 assuming you are not using the triplehead.

Which, of course, I am.

[Bigg]

Originally posted by Wombat
I have never owned an ATI card, ever. I have owned a Parhelia. I no longer own a Parhelia because it gets about 18fps on Half-Life at 1024x768x16, no FAA/FSAA. Oh, and it's stuck at 60Hz. As of the 1.03 drivers Matrox did not care to fix any of this, despite myself and others reporting it on their forums.
My G400 was faster than that.

I "downgraded" back to my GF3Ti (which is clearly visible in my sig), and Now I have 72fps (HL cap) at 1280x960x32 with FSAA on, at 85Hz.

a faster cpu would help that a lot, so please don't play the framrate dis game. I understand if you can't afford a pee4 HT or a barton, but plese don't dis it, just because you were runnig it on an old (relativley) cpu

[Bigg]

Originally posted by 3dfx
and if you really want triplehead add another PCI card.

well, the only games that will work for is quake under linux, and ones that run in windows.

[Bigg]

Originally posted by chaoliang
Maybe it's better to ban all the negative comments on Parhelia and the current situation of Matrox in this forum.

you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[3dfx]

As was pointed out earlier in this thread, this forum is not anti or pro any particular brand that includes Matrox. If Matrox are making bad products then they are going to get dised as you put it, on the murc and if they make good products they will be praised. I would say that the same goes for every computer hardware company. I'm not saying the Parhelia is a crap card, but to put it blunt it is not a gaming card as Matrox would have you think.

Bigg you would think an Athlon 1800 XP is fine for a game that is around 4 years old, Ok the Parhelia might run a lot better on a P4 3Ghz but then so would most graphics card's. I have a 1600XP cpu currently and with the Radeon 9700 I can run everything on FULL, incl anti-aliasing and anistropic-filtering to 16X

[P5ycho]

Originally posted by crow8k3a
umm, i don't see why everyone is complaining about CS and the parhelia, i have the parheliea and i play cs all the time and it plays great, and i'm usually on the top or towards the top of the ranks.

Don't know what miracle parhelia you have, but i've been playing CS at 60Hz and 10-30fps since i got my parhelia, that's even slower than my G400max ran it before

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Bigg
a faster cpu would help that a lot, so please don't play the framrate dis game. I understand if you can't afford a pee4 HT or a barton, but plese don't dis it, just because you were runnig it on an old (relativley) cpu

An OLD CPU? What are you on? The 1800XP came out in October '01. That's hardly an old CPU. Besides the fact that you're just completely wrong, how does a 5 year old game stress my "old" CPU? And you still haven't explained why my "old" CPU ran the game faster with my (by your reckoning) ancient G400?

[Bigg]

OK guys. to play a game that has significant 3d requierments at a decent framerate does not need the latest cpu, AS LONG AS IT HAS A FAST GRAPHICS CHIP. the parhelia is a slower graphics chip, especially with triplehead, so it needs a fatser cpu to make up for that weakness. A parhelia may be slow, but if you've got the $$$, then a fast cpu can make the difference between playable and not playable

[Ryu Connor]

A parhelia may be slow, but if you've got the $$$, then a fast cpu can make the difference between playable and not playable

Let me adjust that statement some.

A Parhelia may be slow, but if you've got the $$$, then a fast video card (not Parhelia) can make the difference between playable and not playable.

[Bigg]

Originally posted by Ryu Connor
Let me adjust that statement some.

A Parhelia may be slow, but if you've got the $$$, then a fast video card (not Parhelia) can make the difference between playable and not playable.

BUT THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TRIPLEHEAD

[3dfx]

LOL N1 RYU!

[Bigg]

Originally posted by 3dfx
LOL N1 RYU!

huh???

[3dfx]

When it comes to games, it's not really the CPU but more like the Parhelia I mean it is out performed on pretty much every occasion by a supposed lesser Radeon 8500 a much older card.