Parhelia AGP 8x out!

[CaineTanathos]

that raid thingy, could be a multi chip or multi core solution. They canned the g800 (2 chip solution) but maybe they are trying again

but it could also be a low budget card. Only Matrox knows

[Nicram]

Sure.... Like Voodoo VSA based cards. 5xParhelia on one board :P

[magician]

Multicore (RAID) theory doesn't stand IMHO, because of one particulary important word in that acronym...

Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Disks) Devices.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by CaineTanathos
t... They canned the g800 (2 chip solution) but maybe they are trying again ...

who in the world ever said G800 was about multicore design ???

[DGhost]

Originally posted by magician
Multicore (RAID) theory doesn't stand IMHO, because of one particulary important word in that acronym...

Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Disks) Devices.

I was always under the impression that it was Redundant Array of Independant Disks...

Inexpensive doesn't hold water when you consider that the SCSI drives used in enterprise class RAID applications were expensive as shit...

[UtwigMU]

It was inexpensive, when it was conceived in 80's since then consumer disks were quite inexpensive compared to other storage and to what would cost to implement fault tolerance in medium.

Today it's independant since inexpensive doesn't fare well in enterprise product branding.

[CaineTanathos]

no the g800 wasn't a multicore design
I thought it was a 2 chip design (separate cores) please correct me again if I am wrong again

[Maggi]

Originally posted by CaineTanathos
no the g800 wasn't a multicore design
I thought it was a 2 chip design (seperate cores) please correct me again if I am wrong again

please, don't split hairs ...

maybe there was a theoretical possibility of using two chips on one PCB, but I doubt it would have been anything else than these

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g200_mms/home.cfm

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g450_mms/home.cfm

[leech]

Hey, I know simple mathematics, the G800 was going to be TWO G400's, right? Apparently Matrox doesn't know math though, because the G450 and G550 should be at least a little faster or at least a better chip than the G400 was... They should have called those the G398 and G399...

So how much will one of these P8X boards be in USD? (I'm too lazy to look up the conversion right now...)

Leech

[brokenwallet]

They already show up on pricewatch for around 350 USD.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by leech
Hey, I know simple mathematics, the G800 was going to be TWO G400's, right?

No, I don't think the G400 core was multi-core capable. But that's the G400.

[leech]

uhm... notice the smiley, it was meant as a joke. Anyhow, anyone actually ever find out the real story behind what happened to the G800? And what all the "Fusion" stuff was going to be?

Anyone able to buy the P8x and well... would there even be a point in getting one if you only have a board that supports AGP 4x?

Leech

[Nappe1]

no one outside the company knows exactly what following things spotted on the drivers during summer 2000 ment:
- G800
- F800
- Fusion
- Fusion Dual

it is only knew that G550 is actually more or less finished version of G800. F800 is completely mystery. perhaps rumoured integrated gfx core for Intel chipset? in that case it would be logical assume that Fusion would be it's code / product name, but then again, what a heck is Fusion Dual then?

[bsdgeek]

Perhaps Fusion Dual was an integrated chipset with a dual channel memory controller?

edit: Or maybe just the obvious DualHead version.

[Nappe1]

Originally posted by bsdgeek
Perhaps Fusion Dual was an integrated chipset with a dual channel memory controller?

I doubt it... in Summer 2000 I bought brand new system based on AMD750 and brand new 700MHz Slot A Thunderbird. So even DDR was in the distant future. Dual channel architechtures at least 2 or 3 years away.