Do you think, we're going to see P8x this year

[UtwigMU]

Well 3D 3dcenter.de suggested it in the Q1 already.

Rivastation suggests that there should be novelties this year.

http://www.rivastation.com/cgi-bin/newsp_e/search.cgi?category=1&keyword=matrox]link[/URL]

Novelties will make their appearance later this year." ((c) by X-bit Labs)

So do you think, we'll see Parhelia 8x or other refresh this year or nothing untill next year, when Millennium P850 with Headcasting 2.0 will take corporate desktops by storm?

[az]

???

AZ

[lAmerZ]

think he's talkin bout 8x AGp :-)

[sparky001]

From my standpoint I believe that the curent parhelia is costing too much money to produce so it would be expected that Matrox are working on a way of making it cheaper and more powerful. As a Side effect I think we will see that 'banding effect' disappear, and get 8x AGP.

Most likely I see them trying to turn their 4*4 architecture into a 4*2 with a increase in core clock. The memory controller will probably have some work done to it to make better use of its bandwidth.

Basically we are talking something akin to what ATI did to the 9500pro to make it a 9600pro.

That is what I think.

It is a shame Matrox lost their tradition. The g100 was the fist card on the market to use AGP. The g200 was the first card to use AGP 2x, G400 first for 4x. ATI beat them with 8x though.

[rylan]

Don't hold your breath.. and LOL to the headcasting comment

[bsdgeek]

They lost their "tradition" with the G400, because the #9 SR9 was the first AGP4x card.

[sparky001]

Thanks bsdgeek. I did think the g400 was the first 4x card but oh well. Yeah I meant 'Tradition'.

Hope they can beat ATI and Nvidia to PCI-express. But I doubt it.

[Nicram]

Matrox will die soon (tm) with politics like that :/

[UtwigMU]

IIRC Med boards are PCI express already.