PHA8x128 arrived today!

[borat]

i have just bought a parhelia 8x, will have a play after writing this but good news is that the memory is 2.8ns, meaning it should be good for 360Mhz , maybe 400Mhz with a decent overclock, and the retail clocks on this card are 250 core 300 memory. The packaging has changed and so has the circuit board its printed on. Benchies to follow.

[borat]

This is what parhelia should have been 18 months ago, it overclocks like a real winner. I currently have the memory set to 390Mhz(780DDR), and the core at 300Mhz, its getting just under 25000 aquamarks like this. The memory is topped out here. Its fully stable at 390, but artifacts appeard at 399. This board is with stock cooling. The memory would reach a max of 400 with ramsinks i beleive. Im still pushing the core, no signs of instablity yet.

[Che Guevara]

Yeehaaw! Praise borat!


Wanna see benchmarks, also from standard clock!!! Please!!!

Does anybody know where I could buy one in germany? And how much it will cost in europe?


Greetz
Che

[borat]

heres the screen shot of the aquamark summary

[Novdid]

Post your score in the thread in the benchmark section so we can compare with other boards!

[Faramir1966]

Looks nice.
Will it be faster than a 9600?(nonpro)

[Che Guevara]

Please also bench with standard clocks!

Hm, how will it compare to a normal Parhelia with a cpu over 2 Ghz in actual games?

[borat]

it wont let me publish the 3d mark score, i think that matrox and futuremark have got together to prevent clocks becoming public knowledge, it was the same as trying to publish with the beta drivers of about 18 months ago, i have not got a username with aquamark but ill set one up after lunch and see if i can publish that. Stock scores in 3d mark were 9200 marks, not really that speacial i didnt think.heres the summary at 300/390, the core will not go to 310. Ill attatch my copper heatsink and ramsinks later this week, but the card is not going to be able to go over 310/400 at absolute max.

[bsdgeek]

New memory controller(s) in action? It's much better at realizing theoretical fill rates.

1200/4800 @ 300MHz
1105/4260

Still wondering when the card will be "official"/on Matrox's site, even though it seems it's popping up in various places for sale.

[Che Guevara]

borat, what about the performance with standard clocks? Please check it out .

Did you noticed any banding? And what about FAA?

[Che Guevara]

PH-A128R is out of stock @ shopmatrox.com, I think they will get the new P soon...

[Mikko]

I'm starting to get jealous!

However, I was wondering if you have noticed any new DX9 features. This card could give me a good reason to upgrade, if it would support new games better.

[DGhost]

There will be no "new" DX9 features. Most especially as long as they insist on compiling their drivers against the DX8 DDK.

[Mikko]

Stupid me! How could you notice new DX9 features, when there is no full DX9 drivers available.

[brokenwallet]

A good listing for aquamark3 and game benchmarks of different video cards (including p4x):

http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-12.html