Matrox Parhelia Boards, specs and pictures

[daywalker]

Check this link HERE

For a card that can give Nvidia a run for its money, iit looks really small. But also it shows the professionalism of Matrox. The card looks nice, small (unlike the GF4 behemoth) and everything on it looks to be placed in perfect order. Matrox gives lessons on board design and quality. Well done.

 

[merlocka]

For a card that can give Nvidia a run for its money

Perhaps in next generation games, but don't expect Parhelia to be much faster than a Geforce4 in the typical web-review benchmarks. I'm predicting Radeon 8500 performance level on initial drivers.

The card looks nice, small (unlike the GF4 behemoth) and everything on it looks to be placed in perfect order. Matrox gives lessons on board design and quality. Well done.

Unfortunatly, the "neatness" of the layout doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Well, I'm sure there will be someone who mounts some kind of circular orange cooling system on it so it looks like a ... parhelia Other than that, it don't mean much.

Drivers will be paramount, and Matrox has stumbled with driver releases in the past (G200 openGL ICD). This being a all-new device the risk is there again... and there seems to be some foreshadowing of this. Matrox was hesitant to send a review board to HardOCP in fear they would reveal flaws in the design. There have been some posted benchmarks which look pretty poor when compared to released nVidia hardware costing a third as much. I don't place much faith in that data, but things are starting to add up which don't paint the best picture. I guess we'll see on the 25th?

 

[cmaMath13]

I think we need to see how the actual retail cards "pan out" before we start giving too much kudos to Matrox.

It is nice to see Matrox making the attempt. Plus, I will be interested to see what Creative Labs has going with it new video cards (hopefully not vaporware).

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

This is going to be an interesting year

We need more competition in this market