Parhelia Great all round card or over priced nothing ?

[GLADIATOR]

Pace I'm mentioning that the Gfroce cards with aniso on and FSAA the card does choke! and the Matrox card Pharhelia does choke to.... I'm no troll but I will tell you this if the cards have this problem I will mention it.. and I will also mention the ATI cards do 16x Aniso with FSAA 2x 4x 6x. No problem .......at high resolution I might add.

[K6-III]

But no surround gaming or Matrox drivers....

....or Matrox 2D for that matter...

..or triple display support...

....or dedicated Heidi AutoCAD drivers...

[CADMAN]

...And not certified to run CAD or DCC applications.

[K6-III]

Check this out: http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstatio.../home.cfm#grid

Appears it is on its way...

[GLADIATOR]

K6-III How do you like your Parhelia?

[Pace]

Noone said it choked. You came in, asked how good it was, then just drew the opposite conclusion...

GLADIATOR: I would like your view on it's graphic quality and how the FSAA runs on games and the detailed look and smoothness<hr />unreal 2003 at 1280 x 1024 with all details maxed aniso and 16xfaa and all i can say is wow, perfectly smooth and no problems thus far highly recomended, tho it would be nice if i could get more than 2x aniso<hr />GLADIATOR: So what your saying is with Aniso the Gforces and Matrox cards basically choke where the Radeons just easily rock

First point (which is picky), but you did say "what your saying" - but noone said that but you.

The Parhelia does not choke with Aniso on, the 2x statement is because currently only 2x is enabled in the drivers (or other).

[K6-III]

Originally posted by GLADIATOR
K6-III How do you like your Parhelia?

After using both a KryoII and a Radeon 8500 128mb Retail....

...and playing with several Geforce4Ti's....

..I wouldn't have gone with anything else...

Basically, I got the KyroII as a stopgag until the next proper 3D Matrox card came out....

...and that didn't last long enough because I needed multimonitor sooner than I thought....

...so the 8500 multimonitor impemenation was about as bad as it gets....so now I have Parhelia...and nothing else comes close....

[CMB]

i like mine

Hi,
I just finished building my new system, p4 3ghz, 1gig 333 ddr ram, parhelia 128 and rtx100 along with other asorted bells and whistles also 3x flatscreen monitors.

I love it.. had some problems at first.. but seem to have smoothed them out.. the reef demo is amazing.

i run games in 1920x480 with 16xfaa on and everything is nice and smooth.. just been playign ut 2003, which is pretty cool and about to install battlefield 1942.

Like i said im a happy bunny... just now i dont know if ill ever get any work done.. not with all these games to play

[Geotpf]

Here's my take on the card (from a gaming perspective):

The bad:

It's overpriced.
The inital drivers were complete turds (although this is not uncommon for release drivers), and there are still some driver issues.
It's slow framerate/benchmark wise compared to the Geforce 4 Ti series or the ATI 9700 (it gets about the same 3dmark2001SE score as a Geforce 3 Ti 200 on my system (comparing my system's processor, memory, and motherboard with others)).

The good:

No current game won't run on it at high detail levels and acceptable framerates.
The image quality is great in both 2D and 3D (I haven't seen this banding issue everybody is complaining about, but I haven't looked for it).
SURROUND GAMING!!! The coolest feature ever. Having 3 screens in 2D (web surfing, etc.) is mega cool also.

My conclusion: If you want surround gaming (I did), get the card. If not, get an card from ATI or Nvidia. Now, this is just from a gamer's point of view. I don't do Photoshop or anything else like that, so somebody else will have to clue you in there.

[borat]

ditto if i was not goin to use triple head or surround gaming then i would have bought a radeon 9700, i wanted triple head so i got one and also got 2d quality and much better multimonitor support then ati can offer.

[Gotcha]

Here is my thoughts, I wish sometimes I had the ATI radeon 9700 pro for all the benchmarks it sets however I own the parhelia 512 and even with the 3dmark scores I could achieve with the 9700 pro I cant give up surround gaming or my three monitors worth of real estate. Here is a true fact for a parhelia owner like myself, if I get a faster card Ill be gaining some kick ass results but at the same time Ill be giving up the triplehead feature and less screen size. Like trading in a 50" tv for a 20" set it just dont work.

Overpriced nothing??? I cant even understand that since I have the card, In my opinion no matter what ATI OR NVIDIA come out with that I could buy, this parhelia card just better.

My conclusion is parhelia is like a drug, its addictive once you try it even though you could fly higher with another card.

Does anyone else get this same feeling? [COLOR=red]

[GLADIATOR]

Geotpf

Thank you very much .... nice short but sweet review and output on the card.

[GLADIATOR]

Now how is the visual quality of the games graphics compared to ATI & Nvidia ? 9700Pro & Ti4600 with everything maxed out and playable... with aniso on ?