Which Parhelia would you buy?

[xortam]

Hypothetically ... lets say that the upcoming announcement of the Parhelia cards include two products available for purchase: a 64 MB version sporting DualHead for $300 and an 128 MB version sporting TriHead for $400. Which card would you buy?

You might want to keep in mind that you'll need the space and extra monitor for that TriHead. I've got the space and I could justify a third monitor for the extra desktop and Doom 3 Surround Gaming joy.

[Novdid]

$400 one. TriHead is something I want!

[Jazzz]

ive got a PII 450 so i won't be buying this card Damm it AMD hurry up with the clawhammer

[xortam]

I don't see your vote Jazzz.

[Jazzz]

ive voted now

[xortam]

Jazzz ... looks like you changed your mind and decided for the TriHead vs. waiting. Do we need some other option in the poll?

[Helevitia]

It was me Xortam, I voted for Tri-head.

Dave

[mattsteg]

Even with my current soon-to-be-replaced system, provided Parhelia performs in line with it's hardware specs I really would like to get one at launch. Even being CPU limited I would still be able to enjoy the image quality, AA, and features, which are the reasons the card is so appealing in the first place.

[Jazzz]

by wait for other options i thought that meant nv30 or r300, but then again it could mean the Parhelia MAX hehe I think there should an option that your not buying any card soon

[Dr Mordrid]

The biggest, baddest sonofabitch they can make

Dr. Mordrid

[xortam]

It looks like you need to be a mod to edit the poll. We could have added another option stating "I don't plan on buying a new video card any time soon" but lets just keep it the way it is. Those people should just vote that they'll wait.

[Joel]

From what I understand, in reading the white papers, tri-head will be support on all the Parhelia cards. So I don't think you will have to decide between dual-head and tri head. You will have that option no matter which card you buy.

Joel

[xortam]

TriHead on all Parhelias

I haven't finished reading all the white papers but I haven't run across anything that led me to that conclusion. In fact, it was stated that not all features would necessarily be available on all cards. This is a hypothetical announcement and I'm mainly interested in seeing how price sensitive people are to the gaming/business Parhelias as well as their willingness to exploit the TriHead.

[merlin262]

I can't really justify anything more than $250 or so for a video card, so I'll have to wait and see.

[Tempest]

Originally posted by Joel
From what I understand, in reading the white papers, tri-head will be support on all the Parhelia cards. So I don't think you will have to decide between dual-head and tri head. You will have that option no matter which card you buy.

Then again, in the Feature Summary PDF there is this thing in my sig... And I couldn't find what the single asterisk refers to, so I'm a pessimist and expect that it might refer to any of the features mentioned in the document