Matrox Parhelia-512 - What's Coming?

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  • KeiFront
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 2001
    • 2668

    #16
    Should we start a new thread in the crystal ball forum to speculate about the functionality off the missing chip
    Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
    Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
    Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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    • Slougi
      MURCer
      • Feb 2002
      • 368

      #17
      Originally posted by KeiFront
      Should we start a new thread in the crystal ball forum to speculate about the functionality off the missing chip
      What is there to speculate about? It's the RSN chip
      -Slougi

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      • Parhelia Pro256
        MURCer
        • Mar 2002
        • 178

        #18
        What, you never heard of socketed GPU's?

        .P.
        I'm with the ugly guy below me

        (It's amazing how many threads I kill with that line )

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        • [GDI]Raptor
          Super MURCer
          • Jan 2001
          • 1045

          #19
          Perhaps some "external T&L" device, like it is rumord to be on the upcomming NV30 chip....

          But I belive it was a RSN chip....

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          • Parhelia Pro256
            MURCer
            • Mar 2002
            • 178

            #20
            You're right on both parts, you can choose the err, diameter
            I'm with the ugly guy below me

            (It's amazing how many threads I kill with that line )

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            • The_King
              MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 135

              #21
              What do you mean 'what that is(was)'? I wouldn't think matrox would be hiding anything since this is the period where they are trying to 'convert' ATI and nVidia users, so they would want to show the best card possible in the previews, wouldnt they?

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              • az
                Moderator
                • Feb 2001
                • 9336

                #22
                The_King, that chip we're talking about was populated on some of the alpha boards we saw, not on others, and won't be on the retail boards, as confirmed by Haig, Tech Support Manager at Matrox. No one is allowed to comment on what it is/was though, maybe because it might be used in a future version, or maybe there will be Marvel cards again, or... you get it?

                AZ
                There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                • {PainCresT}DAn
                  mini MURCer
                  • May 2002
                  • 98

                  #23
                  az good point, and that would be totaly better than a all-in-wonder...

                  BTW excuse my newbieness but what is an RSN chip?
                  What was the error? Well its the ID10T error.

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                  • Sasq
                    Administrator
                    • Jan 2001
                    • 4634

                    #24
                    RSN is the fabled holy grail

                    Go check out www.soontm.com in the hoax section to learn much more...

                    Dan
                    Juu nin to iro


                    English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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                    • az
                      Moderator
                      • Feb 2001
                      • 9336

                      #25
                      Hehe

                      Would be THE major selling point for Matrox, but since headcasting was such a failure, they seem unwilling to implement it... would need huge buffers for games like tomb raider anyway, so it might only be used for the 256 MB model...

                      AZ
                      There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                      • az
                        Moderator
                        • Feb 2001
                        • 9336

                        #26
                        Oh BTW another Marvel is not going to happen, as it looks, this was just to show what I meant... Just to not get your hopes high

                        AZ
                        There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                        • KeiFront
                          Super MURCer
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 2668

                          #27
                          Maybe it's an NVBlur chip to satisfy the former NVidia users
                          Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                          Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                          Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                          • [GDI]Raptor
                            Super MURCer
                            • Jan 2001
                            • 1045

                            #28
                            Yes,or perhaps it is an GPUextention......

                            It had been very nice with a VIVO board.... Just like the ATI Range Theater chip....

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                            • Denus
                              mini MURCer
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 19

                              #29
                              About this card: I really hope they will arrange that wire: I saw some retail mainboards and videocards (matrox also) with wires on it. That's ugly.
                              Now: it's working, but there's a better solution: modify the circuit-board and add that forgotten lead.
                              <a href="http://www.16bitz.com">
                              <img border="0" width="16" height="18" src="http://www.16bitz.com/pub/ram.gif" alt="16bitZ emulation">
                              </a> Denus

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                              • SteveC
                                Super MURCer
                                • Aug 1999
                                • 3540

                                #30
                                Originally posted by TDB
                                maybe some sort of bist-chip(built in self test), or perhaps something that might be used in the rt3000 version of the parhelia.
                                Think about that you just wrote - if it's a BUILT IN self test, then the testing circuitry would be BUILT IN to the Parhelia core, would it not? Not external to the core!

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