Matrox Interview on new Parhelia-512 GPU

[NFS4]

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/hardware/interviews/matrox/parhelia/index.shtml

 

[nortexoid]

interestingly boring.

i just liked his comment regarding ATI and nvidia.

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: nortexoid
interestingly boring.

i just liked his comment regarding ATI and nvidia.

lol, I noticed that to.

 

[rahvin]

They haven't written drivers yet? Oh ma gawd, it's gonna be another radeon driver fiasco.

 

[Scootin159]

Originally posted by: rahvin
They haven't written drivers yet? Oh ma gawd, it's gonna be another radeon driver fiasco.

ATi has always had bad driver support though & Matrox has always (as far as I have HEARD at least) had excelent driver support. I wouldn't worry about the drivers too much, although I would make sure they're solid before I bought one.

 

[Pocatello]

OT, is there any chance Anand has his hand on the next gen of nvidia card, but he can't say because of obvious reason? Just curious, since Anand had the GF4 when the GF3 Ti series were rolling out last year.

 

[Adul]

I still want one.

 

[Scootin159]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
OT, is there any chance Anand has his hand on the next gen of nvidia card, but he can't say because of obvious reason? Just curious, since Anand had the GF4 when the GF3 Ti series were rolling out last year.

My guess is Anand has samples about 2-3 weeks before his articles are posted. Considering he normally has articles covering the "reference designs" a month or so before we really see them on store shelves, I would say it's still a little early for him to have a GeForce 5 (I know that's not what it will be called, but ya know what I mean).

 

[Sunner]

ATi has always had bad driver support though & Matrox has always (as far as I have HEARD at least) had excelent driver support.

I suppose you missed the G200 OpenGL fiasco eh?

 

[Czar]

strange interview, this sebastian guy cant see anything but playing games in tripplehead

most of the interview goes like this

SimHQ: Some question?
Sebastian: The Matrox Parhelia 512 is great, expecialy with 3 displays

 

[merlocka]

They haven't written drivers yet? Oh ma gawd, it's gonna be another radeon driver fiasco.

huh? They have been demo-ing the card and running triple head... of course they have developed drivers. I think you are referring to the comment It is still a little early to talk driver at this point, as we haven?t gone into full-fledged production yet which just means he won't comment ...

 

[Mem]

Sebastian: The Matrox Parhelia 512 is great, expecialy with 3 displays

How many gamers or people will use 3 displays? I know I won`t,I prefer to have just one nice big screen,as for drivers we will have to wait and see,it will take awhile to get them up to a very good stability standard since they are starting from the ground up.As a gamer drivers are more important to me then 3 displays.

Still early days so we will just have to play the waiting game for now, anyway it`s nice to see Matrox back with a new product.

 

[Scootin159]

Originally posted by: Mem

Sebastian: The Matrox Parhelia 512 is great, expecialy with 3 displays

How many gamers or people will use 3 displays? I know I won`t,I prefer to have just one nice big screen,as for drivers we will have to wait and see,it will take awhile to get them up to a very good stability standard since they are starting from the ground up.As a gamer drivers are more important to me then 3 displays.

I already have a dual-head setup. I would probably get a 2nd 17" monitor somewhere for like $100 (2x17" flanking a 19"). I would then put the 3rd POS 17" on my KVM & have it 'share' with my other comptuers & just use a dual-head desktop on the other two for while I'm in windows. I could very easily see me doing this.