What Parhelia II features do you want???

[Bigg]

What Parhelia II features do you want??? Here are a few I would like to see: (BTW these are in no particular order)
1) 1600x1200 triple DVI
2) 2048?x1536 triple vga
3) ti4800/radeon 9500 speed, maybe more
4)support for three monitors+the living room TV.
5) Same pcb degign as the parhelia, and 256MB of ram, like the parhelia 256MB.
6) Lower price (DUH!! )
7) More ocability, especially under vmod and peltier cooling

[bsdgeek]

I would like it to exist.

[lecter]

I'd like to have a Marvel version of the Parhelia...of course, bsdgeek's condition supersedes all the others

[Novdid]

Re: What Parhelia II features do you want???

Originally posted by Bigg
3) ti4800/radeon 9500 speed, maybe more

Whatever speed that tops the best nv and ATI can offer at the time of launch.

[Topha]

all of the above (although r9500 speed wont be enough by the time when it comes out (if it comes out)) + something fancy matrox will have developed in secret (hopefully).

[Chrono_Wanderer]

DX9!
8x4x4 architecture (pretty stupid)
128-bit color precision

[[GDI]Raptor]

- Improved FAA that works in all cases with almost no preformance loss
- 100% DirectX 9 suport
- Higher potential clock on the chip (400Mhz)
- R350/GeForceFX speeds ++

[Mikko]

Performance like Radeon 9700Pro with triplehead would be awesome!

And without banding, of course...

[mdhome]

I'd like them to make Parhelia the card it should have been in the 1st place by fixing the inefficiencies in the current design and ramping it up to 300mhz+ (using .15u). 8 pixel pipelines would be nice but methinks that the current card has some bad design flaws and needs tweeking just to make best use of its current 4. However, some of the diespace could possibly be reclaimed by removing some of the tmu's cuz 4 of them seem to be an overkill.

I'm not interested in dx9 specs until mid 2004 or later and have lost any interest in buying a Parhelia, even in a cheap crippled version for more than £150.

Sadly for me the only card I can think of that I would like to buy would be the 9700, but then again, I said that I would never buy another ATI again because of the piss-poor support they gave on my old Radeon.


As an aside, there is a thread on Beyond3d.com where people express what was for them the biggest Vid card disappointment . Last time I looked, it was the Parhelia (just beating the G-FX). Personally I think that given the 3 years between that and the G400 it was an excellent comeback. Shame about the price and the fact that Matrox seem to be pissing in the wind. Maybe their next rev will rekindle my fire.

Regards MD

[Nowhere]

to be (at worst situation) in position where g400 was at start...

[Bigg]

Originally posted by bsdgeek
I would like it to exist.

yeah, thats the top priority

Originally posted by Mikko
Performance like Radeon 9700Pro with triplehead would be awesome!

And without banding, of course...

that would be nice, although costly.
i looked at the parhelia as the best gaming card out there when it came out, soley for it's triplehead capablilitiues, but now it is looking more and more aged every time a new video chip comes out like the r300 or NV30. The parhelia is now looking like it is bound for the niche market, with high image quality and dualehad HF + video monitor output. I wanted to get a rig with a parhelia, but now it is just too freaking slow, even with a pair of 2600+ mps. It can play most games fine NOW, but come next year it will be too slow, and will end up on an old computer or a dvd player, not where a $400 card belongs after 6-12 months of service.

[rylan]

Damnit I hate hitting reset instead of submit!

As said, it has to exist, and I'd like to see something that is actually ready for release without major bugs in the gpu... The banding issue is unnaceptable and excluses the card from being 'high image quality' as far as I'm concerned.

Get it out there with middle to upper performance compared to other cards at time of release. Dual dvi, and a featureset that actually works in real life with the released drivers and not just looks nice on paper.

[Steve Snyder]

I'd like to see it come with enough software development resources to provide a Linux/XFree86 driver with 3D support.

Alternately, I'd to see it come with Matrox's willing to publish the specs so that others can write the driver.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by rylan
As said, it has to exist, and I'd like to see something that is actually ready for release without major bugs in the gpu... The banding issue is unnaceptable and excluses the card from being 'high image quality' as far as I'm concerned.

Hey... the banding is the latest 3D texture filtering technique.

[Bigg]

If the card can compete with the top card from the big two, both in price and features/speed, then people will consider buying it and not using triplehead for a while, so it will become more affordable, both in volume sales, and being able to justify buying it when not using three monitors. It would sell like nuts, and matrox would become suddenly part of the new "big three"