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Everyone is saying that they are "leaving" the gaming community. Is this for certain? Meaning that their new card won't run games better than the P? I wonder if they can survive doing this. The others are catching up with good dualhead support and 2d display.
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Historically, Matrox will introduce a chip, and the next several cards will be scaled down-versions of the original (Millennium>Mystique, G200>G250, G400>G450>G550).
They have never been overly-concerned with games.
I personally would expect the next couple of cards they release to be scaled-down versions of Parhelia. I think the original Parhelia is the best gaming card we will see from M for a while...Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494s -
That is interesting, didn't notice they did that. Oh well, it'll just let me save up more money. Lol. And when the next gaming card does come out it'll be a large performance jump. I just hope it doesn't take *years*.My "Baby": Shuttle SS51G, P4@2.26 Ghz 533 FSB, 80 GB Western Digital Caviar "Special Edition" Hard Drive 7,200 RPM w/8 MB Cache, 512 MB Corsair PC2700 with Heat Spreaders, Pioneer DVD Drive (w/sexy slot load ), and of course a Matrox Parhelia Retail Vid CardComment
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It will be out Soon™
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The rumours of Matrox leaving gaming come and go constantly. Some people consider they've never been a gaming company, despite like G400 and Parhelia being market leading or close to the leaders. Matrox just tend to be the best all rounders, especially since the G400 series - DualHead really made them top for me
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Matrox's next card, will be delivered by the tooth fairy.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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scaled down parhelia? thats gonna be one hell of a killer card.no matrox, no matroxusers.Comment
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Well, it will be interesting. Business/OEMs lapped up the G200s and G450s as cheap but good quality solutions. Are they going to pay $150 for a less-than-desirable 64MB Parhelia?Meet Jasmine.
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Hell, I'm thankful for the Parhelia even though it didn't perform like many of us hoped it would. Surround gaming is still pretty impressive to me and I just hope support for the feature becomes commonplace.
The only regret I have is that I don't have bigger monitors ... yet.
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well who knows... it can be a jump like the G200 to the G400.
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P2 is nowhere near seeing the light of day.
Before that happens, we will see SunDog and SunLite (scaled-down versions of Parhelia), then the 8x capable Parhelia.
It will be a long while before we see anything significantly better than P for gaming from Matrox...Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494sComment
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Well... that is if we will ever see P2...Comment
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Kruzin, what do you mean by "scaled down"? In what way/ways? No triple monitor support? No FAA support?My "Baby": Shuttle SS51G, P4@2.26 Ghz 533 FSB, 80 GB Western Digital Caviar "Special Edition" Hard Drive 7,200 RPM w/8 MB Cache, 512 MB Corsair PC2700 with Heat Spreaders, Pioneer DVD Drive (w/sexy slot load ), and of course a Matrox Parhelia Retail Vid CardComment
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Who knows.
We won't find out for sure until M makes an official announcement...
But rest assured, it will be less than what P currently is...Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494sComment
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Matrox Parhelia DUAL DVI 64mb with compostite tv output/ input Sounds about right, £200?______________________________
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