A Piece of Parhelia?

[conanian]

From the video forum of 1bits.com, Taiwan.

http://forum.1bits.com/showthread.ph...0&pagenumber=1

Background info: The forum has been known as leaning towards cards with good 2D quality (Matrox, or at least ATI or Canopus nV's)

A person posted today saying that the new Matrox card arrived at his company (Translated from Chinese by me):

The new card frrom Matrox has arrived in the company I worked in, since we have to write softwares for the new card.

I don't know the card's name, neither did my superiors-- I heard that Matrox haven't named yet.

The first thing I see on the card was its HSF, which was similar to the size of that of a CPU's, and we have to remove the card on the PCI slot immediately next to it to install the card properly. The card used 128 MB of DDR SDRAM.

The card is tri-headed, and actually the company is to develop software for enabling the feature.

Yes, although the card's finished, the driver's not-- we are getting driver updates from Matrox every day. So, it needs to wait for the card to hit the market, at least when we are finished with the software.

And on the 3D speed... Maybe I should find a opptunity to test it out secretly, but since the driver's not really finished, thee results would never be accurate.

In lower posts of the thread, he offered photoing the card, but other members declined, since it would break the NDA and would cause him to lose his job. It is possible, however, to copy out the part numbers on the RAM chips...

[roadie]

hmmmm if that is accurate, which i doubt it is then it sounds like .15m to me

this tri head thing sounds interesting, but would there be a normal consumer market for this- i don't think people have enough desk space for this

[thop]

i think there will a single head and a dual head version also. remember his company is developing software vor the multiheads, so no wonder they got the trihead.
however if the card comes already with a big HSF, then i guess there is not much room left for overclocking. and passive HS sounds not possible to me either.

[rubank]

If there´s any truth to that info, it doesn´t sound like something ready for the retail shelves in two months.

Big HSF, drivers unfinished, software just at early stage of dev.?
I really hope M has come further in the process, we don´t need another disappointment.

rubank

[Nappe1]

Thop: remember that there will be more than one model...

[Ant]

If a developer is working on software to enable it then maybe it's not a default feature but only used in certain situations. Didn't Distractorcritical mention something about triplehead?

[DukeP]

Hey ANT. You are very close to Your post number 2000!

Mayhaps You should then be called ANTministrator :P

~~DukeP~~

[ravalox]

Let's hope he's not susceptible to the Post 2K bug. I can see it now, the whole forum goes down and we'll all be in the dark until the actual release of Parhelia.

[conanian]

Originally posted by Ant
If a developer is working on software to enable it then maybe it's not a default feature but only used in certain situations.

IMHO, he meant the company he works in is developing software that can use the trihead feature which would be bundled into the new card's CD, something like DVDMax.

Actually, for such a big HSF, in the opinion of some members in 1bits, would it be a AGP Pro card, you think? An AGP Pro card is allowed to use the space of the next slot, as I know...

[Greebe]

Think about how limited your sales would be if you were using an AGP Pro Gcard.

[Evildead666]

Could it be that this Tri-head feature is only available on the Very high end versions of the card, and that the Silicon for the Tri-head stuff is still in the final testing stages?
It could explain the HSF, it being done in 0.18 or 0.15µ and the final product is to be done in 0.15 or 0.13µ, hence less heat and less need for HSF?

Could be....

A test bench card .

I should expect that Matrox has already got Parhelia up and running. I think i remember Greebe or Ant metioning that the Drivers were ready....this could be something else.

[Greebe]

Pardon me?! nobody has commented on the drivers status.

[Evildead666]

My mistake, must have been about another card....

...or in another forum/from someone else

I'm sure i saw it somewhere.

looking.....and found sqat!!!

serves me right. pure pile of balls.

[Greebe]

well regardless of what was said it's pure dribble... end of story

[Cobos]

Actually I seem to recall that someone managed to get something out of Haig in he G1000 MAXXX thread over on the matrox support forum. Try looking there.

Cobos