Do believe the hype?

[Ant]

OK folks we've had rumours, leaks and borken NDAs. What's your initial impression, does it live up to the hype from what you've seen or are you bitterly disappointed?

[Maggi]

guess what I voted for ...

[KeiFront]

Murc is still up and the matrox website is down

Nice sliced bread

[VJ]

Euhm, matrox is still up...

Jörg

[KeiFront]

Nope Jorg

[VJ]

Strange, I can press reload, and it does reload... Perhaps they don't allow new connections ?

edit:

traceroute, performed at 15:50...(first few hops omitted)

4 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms f0-0-1.c7206vxr.gent.belnet.net [193.190.196.209
]
5 10 ms <10 ms 10 ms pvc1-101.c12008.brussels.belnet.net [193.190.61.
229]
6 80 ms 90 ms 81 ms p1-0.c12008.newyork.belnet.net [193.190.62.202]

7 80 ms 90 ms 80 ms if-2-0-0.bb2.Newark.Teleglobe.net [64.86.230.13]

8 90 ms 80 ms 80 ms if-3-0.core2.Newark.teleglobe.net [207.45.221.3]

9 90 ms 121 ms 90 ms if-9-0.core2.Montreal.Teleglobe.net [207.45.222.
110]
10 91 ms 90 ms 90 ms Vlan2.msfc1.Montreal.teleglobe.net [207.45.221.1
34]
11 100 ms 91 ms 100 ms 64.86.85.10
12 90 ms * 100 ms www.matrox.com [138.11.241.200]

Trace complete.

[KeiFront]

Could be, but haig also mentions that they are experiencing the slashdot effect. http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For.../001138-2.html

[Cobos]

To say it's up is maybe pushing it a bit Though after hitting reload you roll a dice and on a 6 you get were you want, on a 1-5 the page stalls )

Cobos

[The_King]

...In comes the flow of people from the crystal ball to here...

(including me )

[The PIT]

It's back up again now anyway.

[Tempest]

I voted fot WBTSSB, but only because there wasn't a choice for what I really feel... I am glad that Matrox is back in the game, but the fact that Parhelia is (currently) based on 0.15 tech, lacks any major kind of occlusion culling and is a lot less programmable than the upcoming cards can lead to trouble down the road. Then there is this thing in my sig... I don't intend to go for the most expensive version, so I'm not sure what I'll be missing.

But that is something we will have to see later, and I like to think like Anand - they did what was possible with the current manufacturing process. And for now I am glad that Matrox has a product that is good enough for anything one can currently throw at it

[Ant]

I think we should now have the Parhelia-effect, any site that post a preview quickly goes down

Glad others are feeling it now not just us. I get the feeling Parhelia is generating a little interest, I bet nVidia are spitting blood

[The PIT]

Mmm well some of it is.

[VJ]

Well, perhaps our network has priority on the major Belgian routers (Ghent University, we have a direct link to Belnet in Brussels)...
The site loads slowly, but it does work...

Hope you can reach the site soon...

Jörg

[High_Jumbllama]

Slashdot just posted another article a short while ago. Look out server!!!!!!!