Parhelia Reviews due Tomorrow

[Alfie]

The long awaited reviews will be coming out for the Matrox Parhelia video card.
Read part of one at Tom's hardware(germany)it's now been pulled.
The preliminary conclusion is the card didn't fair well against the nvidia 4 and held it's own against the ATI card.
I will reserve judgement until more reviews are released and new drivers are released.
The card itself holds alot of promise for future games,but with current games,I feel it must show a bit more speed than the preliminary review and benchmarks showed, to assure it's success.
Unfortunetley,so much is placed on benchmarks and fps.
I believe a bigger picture should be drawn and the question that should be asked,
Will it perform at a fast enough pace with all eye candy enabled to assure a playable game?
If that proves true and the drivers are improved interesting things may develop.

[Texuspete00]

Here's the site. I think the 8500 showed it up quite well.

http://www.de.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html

[Texuspete00]

oops, i pasted that address from a link that was working, appears they took it down

http://www.anandtech.com/news/showne...l?i=16657&t=wn

[Trent Steel]

Looking forward to the reviews. I use a G400 (regular not max) and when I got the card it was one of the fastest on the market but one thing that matrox does is force others to improve graphic quality not quantity who needs 200 fps when 100 fps gives you all the extra eye candy. I have been disapointed with matrox with its recent releases (which has catered to the business side) and the Parhelia will re-afirm my confidence in the matrox line for games. A least its introduction will force further improvements to the already great GeForces and Radeons.

[mike breck]

I think Matrox has been very wise in concentrating on the business market and visual quality rather than frame rates.
If it tried to compete with NVidia and ATI solely on that score it would probably go out of business.

They may not offer the fastest cards but their quality is superb.

[glc]

I have used Matrox G550's in all the high end business machines I have built lately - it's absolutely superb for digital photo and video editing and its DVD playback is outstanding. 3D games? No way - it's awful. I also have customers running Autocad with G100's and G200's with great results on older machines (P2-333 to P3-550).

[Alfie]

I have to agree,Matrox makes excellent cards,the shame here is everyone will be looking at the benchmarks and not the overall picture.
I view it as a new video card in it's infancy and maturity will follow.
However at it's current high price and poor benchmark performance,I don't think it will come flying out of the box!
We'll have to wait and see.