Parhelia AGP 8x out!

[rylan]

Makes you all warm and fuzzy that the fixed 8x cores were around probably at the time the buggy one was released on the Parhelia, doesn't it? :P

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Venturer
What about a Parhelia 8x 256MB?
Will they even make one?

Yes, but then they'll have to wait until all the buggy P-II are sold before releasing it.

[borat]

Originally posted by Wombat
You guys don't even wanna know how long they were ready for.

I'm guessing that parhelia launch time would not be as rediculous as it sounds.

[borat]

just out of interest do they have any stock in that place quoted?im having trouble understanding it, is it norweigen?

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by borat
just out of interest do they have any stock in that place quoted?im having trouble understanding it, is it norweigen?

Yup it is a .NO site, so norway

Lagerstatus: Ingen tilgjengelige i dag. 19 stk 2004-04-17 (Ubekreftet)

means something like none available today, 19 pieces on the 17th, unconfirmed

[borat]

cheers tjalfe, been doing a bit of surfing and seems only norwegian suppliers are advertising them at the moment, hopefully they will be more widespread within the month, may think about selling my 256 and getting one of these.

[Greebe]

Originally posted by lecter
The rumors were that the 8x parts would come out once they exhausted the existing stock of 4x ones...I take it it took them 2 years to do that?

If true then it's time to RMA my old P (with the blown out beta BIOS that fubar'd it) and get anew.

Will have to ask Haig about that tonight

[Venturer]

Can someone make a summary with the differences between Parhelia 4x and Parhelia 8x new revision?

I think the main differences in favour of the new revision are:
-AGP 8x interface
-FAA and Banding bugs fixed
-Highter clock speed

And so on?

[borat]

thats pretty much it, as for cock speed, the origional memory was supposedly 300Mhz, clocked to 250 on the bulks, so if we assume that the bulk clock was meant to be 200Mhz, then to run the memory at 300 would be 20% more than 250, and a 20% increase in core would bring it up to 240Mhz. Thats what i think the new cores will run at, maybe 250 but probably 240Mhz.

[borat]

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by Venturer
-FAA...bugs fixed

Were/are there FAA bugs? If you're talking about the way it doesn't work with stencils (e.g. for shadows), that's a completely different problem to the one FAA tries to solve.

If there are definite FAA bugs though, please enlighten me.

[Che Guevara]

@Ribbit:

Don't you know about the problems of FAA with bitmap-objects, water and fogs in some games?

FAA was fixed in the Millenium P cards.

[Ribbit]

No, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.

[a_h]

@Che Guevara: which games?

Cheers, Hannes

[Nappe1]

Something, that murcers might find rather interesting. (look especially the date.)



also, I have been let to know that soon after that, p8x was finalized as 0.15µm and it was really capable reaching that core clock range.

I really hope that they have been able to respin it to 0.13µm... otherwise it will be too little and too late.