Parhelia's gonna be lame (not MY opinion, but Tom's)

[Zlajo]

Never trust a dentist, that's what I say...

[OZZIE_NO_GOOD]

f###k all bad reviews and conclusions they are all jelos (pfff missing a spel checker over here)

[Guru]

Tom = nVidiot!

[Umfriend]

Just wondering though, who did get a card and will be able to post a real review when?

Umfriend aka HatEatinMoron

I take my hat Vindaloo style.... (Smiley in quick reply style!)

[Electric Amish]

I don't think anyone has a card yet.

amish

[TdB]

Originally posted by Electric Amish
I don't think anyone has a card yet.

amish

well, the really important people have.

Tim Sweeney, Epic's chief 3D guru working on next-generation Unreal engine technology had this to say about it: "We've had our hands on a Parhelia for the past few days, and have Unreal Tournament 2003 up and running in triple-monitor mode -- it's very immersive, and surprisingly fast (rendering at 1280*3 x 1024)." The UT engine has had adjustable FOV for quite some time now, and UT 2003 obviously does too, so when that title ships this summer, it will in all likelihood support Surround Gaming.

[Kruzin]

There are a few alpha/beta boards out there, but they are mostly in the hands of developers. None of the review sites has a final product yet.

But they will Soon(tm)

[frankymail]

BTW, THG always makes an article on hardware bugs and glitches in new products, but he never even mentionned the horrible G4Ti Aniso Filtering bug: enabling Aniso (doesn't matter if it 2 or 8 samples) DISABLES the second texturing unit of the whole four pixel pipelines... Man, playing MOHAA @ 1024x768 with every game details options maxed out and 4x4 MSAA plays fine (but looks like shit due to the bad filtering), but enable Aniso (which greatly improves visual appearance) and the things is always below 40 FPS... where I could easily get 75 FPS in the worse parts...

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by piaxVirus
Haig if you're reading this. See if you can delay Tom's card until after all the pre-orders have been sent out.

The people that want the cards, should get the cards.

I have been thinking about this, and I couldn't agree more. If they are so biased towards nVidia anyhow, and write a review that gives only faint praise like that when Parhelia is quite obviously due a standing ovation, it might look much worse for Matrox than if they get no card at all to review, get pissed off, and write a scathingly damning review. The latter will get them laughed out of the industry and ruin their credibility once and for all.

I say f*** em. Send me Tom's card, Haig. I will actually pay for it. If you want me to, I will even write a (totally unbiased ) review of it myself right here.

[DuRaNgO]

...and I'll help

[Haig]

Haig if you're reading this. See if you can delay Tom's card until after all the pre-orders have been sent out.

The people that want the cards, should get the cards.

I say f*** em. Send me Tom's card, Haig. I will actually pay for it.

Comments well noted and passed on. FWIW, I don't blame your reaction.

Enjoy the ride folks

[spawn666]

tom is blind. he like those companies who give him his pc.

first it was the nice video about removing a heatsink (yeah, i do that 2 times a week with my alpha 8045) and then it is those hype about niwieder.

releasing driver every week is not the best way. ever tried to install powercolor nvidia ? every second detonator wont even work.

thats why i got a millenium, a g100, g200, g400, g400max and then my herc 4500. and now its the parhelia.

i was not not disappointed from the kyro but it is a little slow by now.

man, when does parhelia come to germany ? 2004 ? we are living behind the moon i think.

[Slougi]

It shouldn't be too long I hope.

Offtopic: Are you the guy who has some art at DevianArt or am I remembering wrongly?

[spawn666]

do you mean me ? no... i am not that one... what are you talking about ? i am just a poor 26 year old dude waiting for his parhelia so he can game at more speed.....

[[GDI]Raptor]

It looks like xbitlabs are sceptic to!
Matrox Parhelia-512: "False Revolution"?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1021433796

As for professional application, which I considered the most suitable for parhelia-512 once I saw the specs, everything will depend on the software quality, on the drivers for professional applications (such as ELSA drivers for Quadro, for instance). And Matrox has never been very successful at writing drivers. However, everything may change this time, though I will not believe it until I see the tests results. Of course, there is also a group of professional users requiring excellent 2D quality (such as editors, for instance), but do they really need such a powerful 3D then?

Well, you may call me an inveterate skeptic, but I do not believe in immense popularity of the new Matrox Parhelia-512 in any of the market segments, and hence cannot regard this product as a revolution in the full meaning of this word. At least until I see some details test results.

Looks like the writer here is an nVidiot to!!