The more I read!

[icemaker]

The more I want to buy a parhelia video card!

[Zed_L]

Same here. I was quite disappointed when the reviews started to come out. But now, after reading lots of reviews, the posts here in MURC and actually every possible thing about the "P", I am starting to understand that this really is a card that nothing else comes even close to.

The price is bad (about €550 here in finland) and there still is some issues including Anisotropic filtering bug and glitches in 16xFAA in some cases, but the drivers are getting better as I write this post. (well not literally, not at this hour, they have to sleep too )

So I am quite sure I'm buying Parhelia after all.

[Fenrir(AVA)]

Dido....

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34173

[Flyke]

I couldn't agree more.

I'm gonna wait till the 256 version hits the streets though and see what they have done with it & what price it'll be..
( I HAVE to wait - got no money whatsoever for the next few months.. )

/Flyke

[GT98]

Yeah the more I read the benchmarks arent all that bad in compairson to the comp. I've even noticed a change in the way the P is being reported at [H]...maybe their review they are doing is changing their minds?

Just the price is a bit much to bear...oh well I'm still getting one because I have been elected the Fanboy of MURC LOL

[CHHAS]

Yep, and you'd better be using a Matrox network adaptor too

[Valkoinen]

Damn, me too

After the first reviews I was kind of dissapointed and seriously considered buying a 128MB R8500 instead, since it's that much cheaper too.

Now I think I still like that image quality more than raw power (if I didn't I'd have changed my G400 long time ago). 1024x764 with 16XFAA seems mighty fine to me

And I really love the tv-out capabilities, especially the DVDMax so I wouldn't want to give that up just for gaming.

[WaltC]

Anisotropic tap

I am very interested in the Parhelia myself at this time as a replacement for my GF4 Ti4600.

However, I'm waiting to see what happens with the P and anisotropic filtering. Right now the current limit of 16-tap AF is unacceptable to me. I'm far more interested in AF than I am in FAA/FSAA--indeed I don't even use it with my present card as it's much too blurry (2x FSAA is not so bad as far as blurriness goes, but the blurriness is still noticeable, and the nVidia FSAA currently does a terrible job with near vertical and near horizontal lines, and these lines if you'll notice make up a high percentage of the lines you'll see in a given 3D frame.)

But 64-tap (8x) AF makes a profound difference in image quality--more than FSAA, in my opinion, and you've really got to see it to believe it to understand this. I'm very surprised that Matrox has thus far limited the P to 16-tap AF--which is really not competitive on an image-quality basis, as the stated goal for P is image quality over frame rate. Matrox should definitely put this option in and let the users of the P decide when and where to use it.

[103er-Fan]

I just can'T wait till I have the card in my own hands, I wish it would be in every store now
Anyways, as soon as some german online store has it available, I will order it. At the moment it is the only card which would be a good replacement for my Voodoo5 5500 AGP.

[Znucke]

I'd also want to have a P. in my future system but the pricing feels a little extreme for me at the moment, the price of the P. 128 @ datorbutiken.se is currently 5015 SEK which is around €560.

Anyway, I wonder how fast the price will drop and how much it'll have dropped until the end of the year...anyone who cares to speculate?

[xortam]

Originally posted by Znucke
... Anyway, I wonder how fast the price will drop and how much it'll have dropped until the end of the year...anyone who cares to speculate?

I'd say zero drop in price this year.

[Zao]

Znucke... you can get it for 4800 inkl. moms on jmedata.se