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Hello to all you MURC readers. I have some updates to the next card information including some new additions and bits of what to expect.
-The sterile 64 megabyte version of Parhelia has been put on hold. In its place will be a 256 megabyte version of the same card. It will be roughly the same chip with the same or lower clocks. Expect an announcement tomorrow, but as with anything dealing with Matrox Graphics, don't place all your money on it.
-There is a revision of Parhelia waiting in the wings, it will be higher clocked all around and will support the latest and greatest 8X AGP interface. It will perform measurably better from the way things look. Don't expect it to be out in the very near future as they are set on selling what they currently have in production, then they may move to the revised Parhelia.
-"Parhelia 2", from my most reliable sources, is said to be taped and ready to move forward from there. It has improved shaders, will be fully DX9 compliant and exceed, will have improved Fragment Anti Aliasing, improved 'free' aniso filtering, a revised memory interface, pipeline improvements to allow higher clock speeds, and should support more memory on board than the current Parhelia (512 vs 256). On paper, it looks like a good prospect and should perform better all around than the current cards. In the real world no one will know until it's here. Don't expect the card to appear sooner than next summer.
VigilAnt
P.S. Who says all Matrox news has to be bad news?
Hello to all you MURC readers. I have some updates to the next card information including some new additions and bits of what to expect.
-The sterile 64 megabyte version of Parhelia has been put on hold. In its place will be a 256 megabyte version of the same card. It will be roughly the same chip with the same or lower clocks. Expect an announcement tomorrow, but as with anything dealing with Matrox Graphics, don't place all your money on it.
-There is a revision of Parhelia waiting in the wings, it will be higher clocked all around and will support the latest and greatest 8X AGP interface. It will perform measurably better from the way things look. Don't expect it to be out in the very near future as they are set on selling what they currently have in production, then they may move to the revised Parhelia.
-"Parhelia 2", from my most reliable sources, is said to be taped and ready to move forward from there. It has improved shaders, will be fully DX9 compliant and exceed, will have improved Fragment Anti Aliasing, improved 'free' aniso filtering, a revised memory interface, pipeline improvements to allow higher clock speeds, and should support more memory on board than the current Parhelia (512 vs 256). On paper, it looks like a good prospect and should perform better all around than the current cards. In the real world no one will know until it's here. Don't expect the card to appear sooner than next summer.
VigilAnt
P.S. Who says all Matrox news has to be bad news?
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