My Review is up

[chr_79]

The IL2 sturmovik's FAA & FSAA screenshot seems to be inverted.

[Nappe1]

Great review. I fully agree with John Reynolds (he posted at B3D) on his comments.

[[GDI]Raptor]

Read it now!

Very good review! You show that Parhelia isn't so bad as most pepole thinks!

I just played Need For Speed Hot Persuit 2 on my Parhelia, 1280x1024x32 (FAA-16 on) with all details maxed out, and it looked beautiful, and verything ran smooth!

[typedef enum]

Just wanted to let you guys know that the review will be back up soon. We recently went through a new formatting standard, and work is being done to get the review to conform to that standard.

In addition, I went ahead and plowed through all of the high resolution/Antialiasing benchmarks on a Ti4600, and added a page showing/discussing those results.

I apologize for that, but...you know...things happen.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by typedef enum
Just wanted to let you guys know that the review will be back up soon. We recently went through a new formatting standard, and work is being done to get the review to conform to that standard.

In addition, I went ahead and plowed through all of the high resolution/Antialiasing benchmarks on a Ti4600, and added a page showing/discussing those results.

I apologize for that, but...you know...things happen.

grrrrrr....I was just trying to get to page9! you heartless errr...review-writer!

how long should it take?

[typedef enum]

I've been told that it should be done by tomorrow.

[ElDonAntonio]

You missed PAGE 9!??! ahhhhh man, that sucks for you, Page 9 was the bomb!!! With these FAA screenshots of the babe in bikini! fiouf!

[Maggi]

I guess the process of updating is the reason why the link is dead ?

I'd love to read it for myself ...

[Kurt]

Originally posted by ElDonAntonio
You missed PAGE 9!??! ahhhhh man, that sucks for you, Page 9 was the bomb!!! With these FAA screenshots of the babe in bikini! fiouf!

AOK. I'm a married man, I'm above that now

[leech]

Originally posted by Kurt


AOK. I'm a married man, I'm above that now

Just wait a few more years, you'll probably be back to that

All kidding aside, I was looking forward to reading this review and like another poster said, it's not there, geez, what's a guy to do this early in the morning before work? (5:30am)

Leech

[Novdid]

Sleep a bit more???

[Edward]

Does the site ever go up again, I want to see the comparison.

[G3ck0G33k]

Prank?

Was there ever a review or has it been pulled?! I cannot find it anywhere.

If pulled, who believes in nvnews' independence vs. nVidia...

Please, inform us!

[Kruzin]

If you read this thread, you will know what is going on with the review.

[typedef enum]

I'm still waiting from Mike to get a feel for when he will complete the necessary work. The last word I got was that he had nearly finished it, so I sent him an email this morning.

On a somewhat similar, but different topic, let me also state that I did do a complete comparison between the Parhelia and a Ti4600 after getting some initial feedback. I produced a page that contained all of the data/charts.

To make a long story short, this will not be included in the review. However, I plan to take the content from this page and put it up on Beyond3D.

The last non-nVidia card that was reviewed, the ATI 9700, did not have any comparison data either...It just showed the absolute performance numbers. Anyhow, that's the way it is...and there's not much more I can say/do about it.

I will update this thread when I get an opportunity to post this information, but I'll give you the skinny right here...

If you were to configure both cards such that Antialiasing is enabled (FAA for the P, 4x/4xS for the GeForce4)....

In virtually every conceivable benchmark, the Parhelia will outperform the GeForce4. In some cases, the margin _is_ significant. There was only 1 exception to this rule, and it involved a CPU-limited game...and the difference turned out to be 2 FPS. So, for all intents and purposes, you can basically say that the Parhelia will yield better performance whenever the IQ tweaks are enabled.

Now, here's the kicker. I wasn't totally convinced that my numbers were right (OK...I had seen enough of the P to know that it _was_ possible), so I decided to throw Anisotropic Filtering in the mix. Using the 2x level, I got the _same_ result...Parhelia was still faster than the Ti4600.

I don't really understand Matrox's position on this at all. Maybe very recent drivers have contributed to much better performance...But if they're afraid of losing out to the likes of the GF4, then I don't really know what they're worried about. Fact of the matter is that the Parhelia is faster where/when it counts.

Again, having said all of this...I believe when you add all of this info/data up...if you're a Matrox fan, you have a reason to be _very_ optimistic. At a mere 220 MHz., and a relatively simple memory subsystem, this thing is doing quite well for itself against architectures that have been tweaked/modified over the period of 3 years time...along with more mature drivers.

If Matrox can achieve this level of performance right out of the gate, imagine what they can do with the refresh? A higher clocked part, better memory architecture, and a polished FAA implementation would seriously rock & roll.

I'll update this thread when I get home and post this information on Beyond3D.