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  • Matrox Parhelia™ 128MB graphics card receives "Distinctive" recognition by HP

    Montreal, Canada, February 20th, 2003 — Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of professional graphics solutions, is pleased to announce that its Matrox Parhelia™ 128MB graphics card has been selected by HP as a distinctive graphics solution for various HP workstations. Parhelia offers exceptional stability and robustness to HP workstations and carries on Matrox's longstanding tradition of delivering rock-solid drivers, unique features and award-winning image quality.

    Designed for 2D and 3D workstation professionals, Parhelia offers the most comprehensive display output options on the market. Parhelia users can choose from various combinations of RGB, DVI and TV displays with Matrox's unique DualHead®-HF feature, the first fully-symmetric multi-display support from a single graphics chip, capable of independently displaying dual analog outputs at 2048x1536, or dual digital outputs at 1600x1200 with independent gamma-correctable hardware overlays. And now, with Matrox's unique triple-display Surround Design feature, users can enable hardware-accelerated 3D across one, two or three monitors from a single chip, for tremendous productivity gains. TripleHead provides the ultimate in onscreen real estate, stretching a desktop across three displays to a maximum resolution of 3840x1024.

    "Matrox Graphics is pleased to receive this distinction from HP," says Al Vandenbussche, director, North American sales, Matrox Graphics Inc. "HP customers can be confident that they are receiving a stable and feature-packed graphics card which, combined with HP's workstations, provides them with amazing capabilities."

    Parhelia also adds considerable value to CAD and GIS users with its triple-display ability, giving them the freedom to simultaneously view a project from various angles or in different stages of development, and to digital video workstation and digital content creation (DCC) users, enabling consumers to display a multitude of application windows, toolbars, timelines and effects control menus for increased efficiency. Parhelia features many other benefits for the digital video and DCC markets, including the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) plug-ins for Adobe® After Effects® and Discreet™ 3Dstudio max™, and Dual-display plus TV-Output, allowing users to preview their project full-screen to a TV monitor while editing.

    "Our consumers demand a stable and productive workstation that allows them to handle the most taxing applications with ease," says Jim Zafarana, worldwide marketing manager, HP's Workstation Global Business Unit. "With HP workstations and the Parhelia 128MB graphics card, our customers should receive the stability and flexibility they need in a graphics solution to accomplish the most demanding tasks."

    About Matrox Graphics Inc.
    Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of professional graphics solutions, has been delivering high-quality, innovative 2D/3D and video graphics accelerators for more than a quarter century. Pioneer of the trend-setting DualHead® technology, Matrox is a graphics chip designer and board manufacturer whose products have been awarded over 1,000 times worldwide for their superior image quality, practical ingenuity and unwavering stability. In July 2002, Matrox was elected as a voting member of the OpenGL® Architecture Review Board (ARB). A privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Matrox has international offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Information on Matrox products, drivers, technical support and more can be found at: www.matrox.com/mga.

    Matrox Graphics Inc. and Matrox are registered trademarks or trademarks of Matrox Graphics Inc. and/or Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. Other company, product and service names and/or logos indicated above may be trademarks or service marks of such other companies.
    honestly, i'm rather shocked about this... there is no chance in hell i would trust a Parhelia in a workstation of mine, and i am quite stunned that HP of all companies could ever find the Parhelia an acceptable choice for their workstations...
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    You know sometimes I think that some of the cards dont suffer from things like banding as the reviewers never spot it, and if companies like HP are us P's in their computer's. It makes me think that they dont all suffer from it

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    • #3
      Well it Motherboards made by ABit get awards why can't a bit of banding go amiss.
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      • #4
        Why don't you people stop complaining and be happy, because this could really help Matrox crawl out of $hit.
        Maybe this could mean we have a chance of seeing a next gen Matrox product in the future...
        They were as good as dead without OEM deals...
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        • #5
          It will bring in some cash, but it could also be the beginning of (legal) problems once those HP customers start complaining about all the banding.
          no matrox, no matroxusers.

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          • #6
            I don't believe Matrox would be responsible in that case. HP had all the time they needed to test the P if it satisfies their needs.
            And I bet those Parhelias that will go to HP won't have banding problems... At least not so obvious as some users are experiencing...
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Goc
              Why don't you people stop complaining and be happy, because this could really help Matrox crawl out of $hit.
              Maybe this could mean we have a chance of seeing a next gen Matrox product in the future...
              They were as good as dead without OEM deals...
              Only 3dfx made a slight complaint, and, let's see.

              Why should anyone feel happy that the company that stuffed them with banding cards and are in all likelihood hand picking 'quality' cards for reviewers and OEMs?

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              • #8
                Well... Not everyone should feel happy. Only people that want to see a nextgen Matrox product, or people that like Matrox for what they used to be, or people that simply want another player alive in 3D market...

                I don't approve Matrox business tactics. Hey, I'm not stupid. But I think it is the only way out of the situation bad management decisions got them into.
                I don't want to sound as a zealot here, but Matrox needs to sell their P stock fast while they still can, and if this is the only way to do it, then they get a big "thumbs up" from me for doing it.
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                • #9
                  What is there to be happy about, it makes me feel even more annoyed that other unsuspecting victims may suffer from the problems of the parhelia. Or if they get a perfect parhelia without the banding issues then why couldn't Matrox give everyone one of those tbh.

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                    • #11
                      True, but to repeat myself once again: wouldn't you like to see a Pitou?
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Goc
                        True, but to repeat myself once again: wouldn't you like to see a Pitou?
                        We would like to see it, but would we buy it considering how we got burned (at least some of us) with the current P

                        Besides seeing that the problem might have been fixed for HP and that many peep here are stuck with it is a little bit frustrating, but its all speculation anyway, maybe they'll get banding too since it was considered normal if you remember well...
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                        • #13
                          Nothing has been fixed for these OEM cards.
                          The problem exists in all current P chips, and won't be fixed until this batch is gone, and they start producing the 8x versions.
                          There are still 10s of thousands of the current chips.
                          It is a chip issue, and no board/BIOS level changes will change it.

                          Now concider that these cards are to be sold in WORKSTATIONS.
                          Those workstations are most likely to be sold with DFPs.
                          the banding issue does not exist with DFPs.
                          Kinda negates the problem, doesn't it?

                          Either way, the fact of the matter is that the banding issue IS NOT as bad as many would have the world believe.
                          Yes, it exists. There is no denying that.
                          But it only happens under certain conditions.
                          The only time I see it is if I run an intensive 3D app/game in a window.
                          Since when I am playing a game, I do it full screen (as MOST users do), it is really a NON-issue to me.
                          Most users do not use their systems under the specific conditions that make it appear.
                          This is why NOBODY even noticed the problem for 2 months after the card was released.

                          I just wish the whiners would relax just enough to be able to pull the stick out of their sphinkters, and get on with life.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Kruzin
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                            Now concider that these cards are to be sold in WORKSTATIONS.
                            Those workstations are most likely to be sold with DFPs.
                            the banding issue does not exist with DFPs.
                            Kinda negates the problem, doesn't it?
                            Yes, that would negate the problem, if it were a likely way for things to play out. However, this card, "designed for 3D professionals" in that release, is likely to be run on CRTs. DFPs don't have the brightness, color range, or real estate to replace a quality 21, 22, or 24" monitor. Also, since all those 3D design tools tend to run as a window...

                            Either way, the fact of the matter is that the banding issue IS NOT as bad as many would have the world believe.
                            Yes, it exists. There is no denying that.
                            But it only happens under certain conditions.
                            The only time I see it is if I run an intensive 3D app/game in a window.
                            Since when I am playing a game, I do it full screen (as MOST users do), it is really a NON-issue to me.
                            Good for you then, but it certainly isn't limited to windowed mode. I particularly remember the banding looking like ass in JKII and Deus Ex.
                            Most users do not use their systems under the specific conditions that make it appear.
                            This is why NOBODY even noticed the problem for 2 months after the card was released.
                            Umm, nobody? I guess that means certain beta testers didn't see it with their cards? I saw it pretty early in my retail card, and said something to Greebe and Rags. Just because I didn't post it all over the place, you think I didn't see it?

                            I just wish the whiners would relax just enough to be able to pull the stick out of their sphinkters, and get on with life.
                            I just wish the fanboys would stop insulting people with different experiences than theirs and exhibit some respect. You still parrot this "certain conditions" line, which is blatantly false. My Parhelia + 3D = banding, period.
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                            • #15
                              Maybe Matrox should use S.O.E. / Verant's Everquest response to bugs that will never will be/can't be fixed : "It's working as intended." If they've got tens of thousands of Parhelia chips waiting to be sold, it's probably gonna be a long time before they get around to making new ones.

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