Matrox Parhelia product announcement!

[Mikko]

For people who have high demands and have plenty of money to burn!

http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_center/press_rel/2003/parhelia_hr256_launch.cfm

[Tjalfe]

"Pricing and availability
The Parhelia HR256 will be available for US $2,495 directly from Matrox at: http://shopmatrox.com, or by calling 800-361-1408, in Q4 2003. "
I think I will wait

[VJ]

Cool !
Consider that it is meant to drive very high resolution displays:

This exceptionally high resolution (3840 x 2400) can only be achieved today by combining multiple DVI channels and synchronizing them for a smooth and flawless display.

Such as this IBM:

http://www5.pc.ibm.com/be/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_T3DG3EU?OpenDocument

Also, I don't think there really is much competetion in that market; at previous demonstrations, IBM used multiple matrox-cards to drive the monitors; now this can be done with a SINGLE PCI card !

(I think it does show were matrox is heading: specialized graphics markets, where the 3D-aspect is done using other hardware)


Jörg

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

Since you read the release, might as well follow it up with the feature story:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/sept2003/p_hr256.cfm

[Marshmallowman]

Nice 66mhz PCI, A nice candidate to make an dual opteron workstation useing an AMD chipset board...eg no AGP slot.

Excuse me I just have to nip out and buy a lotto tickeyt

[Chrono_Wanderer]

I think i know why you guys call yourselves "the professional graphics company"

good use of what resources Matrox has... unlike headcasting, i think this niche is actually quite a smart move!

best of all, its based on a PCI-X Interface!

Very professional indeed.

[VJ]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
best of all, its based on a PCI-X Interface!

I'm not sure of this; the card is said to work on:
PCI 33 MHz and 66 MHz

And by the looks of it is 64 bit. PCI-X 1.0 is indeed 64 bit, but allows for clockspeeds up to 133 MHz; PCI-X 2.0 (don't think there is such hardware already) even doubles or quadruples this to 266 and 533 MHz).


Jörg

[SpiralDragon]

indeed... i can see such a product in an AVID editing environment.... wow...

[thop]

QUAD DVI

[rylan]

Matrox made that card to drive the IBM "big bertha' 23" 9MP lcd display. We actually had a proto of it a a while back along with the monitor at work. I'd assume its for use in specialized CAD and mammography applications, since the text is too small to read. Its kinda funny looking though, since you have c breakout cable with 4 dvi connectors going to the panel, so windows sees it as 4 display strips :P

[VJ]

Originally posted by rylan
Its kinda funny looking though, since you have c breakout cable with 4 dvi connectors going to the panel, so windows sees it as 4 display strips :P

Hmm, if Windows sees it as 4 monitors, what does it do with the taskbar ? Is it only visible on the bottom left or bottom right, or is it duplicated, or does it simply cover both halves ?


Jörg

[magician]

Originally posted by VJ
Hmm, if Windows sees it as 4 monitors, what does it do with the taskbar ? Is it only visible on the bottom left or bottom right, or is it duplicated, or does it simply cover both halves ?


Jörg

In independant mode (different res and color depth) it is visible only on primary monitor and which one is that is up to you. Actually it is one that's connected to the first output of the multimonitor graphic card.

In stretched mode (same res and color depth) it should be expanded across all screens.

For more flexible and useful adjusments one should use UltraMon program by RealtimeSoft.

Edit: grammar and some clarifications

[UtwigMU]

Considering that monitor costs 7.5k the card seems reasonably priced.

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=-840&langId=-1&partNumber=9503DG3&storeId=1