New cards to be announced ?

[K6-III]

Excellent news!!!

P8X lives!!!

[Chrono_Wanderer]

LOL. Still DX8 tech

oh well... i guess that's an improvement fro big M

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Oh yea... so... are we going to see a Rainbow Runner P-Series

[mdhome]

is agpx8 anything to get excited about?

[bsdgeek]

It means a new core, which would (in all probability) have no banding.

[Unicron]

The only problem is that if it is a Parhelia 8X with maybe new 0.13 micron process and new bug fixes they will charge £250-300 for it which i dont think is fair for us really.

Just because they couldnt get it right the first time!

[JaG]

Aha, that seems to be the way...

[Yannick]

The original news was speaking of around 170 € (+ VAT) for the smaller one, and 235 € (+ VAT) for the more expensive. Of course it all depends on whether this really was a european price, or simply an american price converted to euros (which is quite different, of course).

[K6-III]

That's for the crippled Millenium-P series.

We're talking about the P8X, which should be an improved Parhelia.

Vigilant was talking about the P8X also having higher clocks as well...

[Yannick]

I might be a little confused about all this.

If I remember correctly, the Parhelia 512 cannot handle AGP8x, so if the LX series handles AGP8x, their core is at least some variation of the presumed 8x version of the P-512.

Which means that the "Parhelia 8x" reference might only be about the LX series.

Then again maybe not.

I hope we get some information soon, because my G400Max isn't sufficient any more, and I'm very close to switching to a Radeon 9700 or 9800.

[K6-III]

As I understand it, the Parhelia-LX would refer to the Millenium-P Series.

[borat]

its G800 all over - why does this mean that p8x would be a dx8 part though, i think we are not going to see it any time soon.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Yannick
I might be a little confused about all this.

If I remember correctly, the Parhelia 512 cannot handle AGP8x, so if the LX series handles AGP8x, their core is at least some variation of the presumed 8x version of the P-512.

Which means that the "Parhelia 8x" reference might only be about the LX series.

Then again maybe not.

I hope we get some information soon, because my G400Max isn't sufficient any more, and I'm very close to switching to a Radeon 9700 or 9800.

Hey... maybe they are skipping the full 8X and shift to Parhelia II

[UtwigMU]

Wasn't it:

SunDog = Parhelia 8x
Pitou = Parhelia ][

And P650 and P750 should be scale down of SunDog or just Parhelia core on different board.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

IIRC Sundog is Parhelia 64MB