jucaro Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Has anyone used a Matrox Parhelia? I'm planning to upgrade my Matrox G400 Millennium for a Parhelia. How is the actual performance of the parhelia compared to other video cards of its class and price range? How is it when used with 3DSMAX 5.1? I'm somewhat attached to the twin head technology and wouldnt mind the triple head of the new matrox. But would be open to suggestion of a somewhat similar technology from another brand if its better performacewise and pricewise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 How is the actual performance of the parhelia compared to other video cards of its class and price range? About three generations behind in performance. On average the parhelia performs on par to a geforce2 ti/ultra. How is it when used with 3DSMAX 5.1? Too expensive and too slow. But would be open to suggestion of a somewhat similar technology from another brand if its better performacewise and pricewise. Quadro 750XL Quadro 900XL Quadro 980XL Quadro 1000 FX Quadro 2000 FX Or if on a budget... A ti 4600 Dual DVI-I Geforce4, or Ti 4800 Dual DVI-I Geforce4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 And since I will most likely be asked... Why? or How is that possible? Here's some evidence. (Even though this topic was already covered in the past month). http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/3dsmax5.html Here's some later card scores (to compare in the same scenes vs the p-matrox card) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/3dsmax5-atiprof.html Here's some other site reviews of the Pathetic Parhelia. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1645 http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q2/parhelia/index.x?pg=1 http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000259 I hope that will be sufficent. Needless to say, the Parhelia's performance has caused matrox to move it towards their business community, by chopping the core/ram speeds and reducing the ram allotment on the card. (These versions are known as Millenium). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Originally posted by Greg Hess: About three generations behind in performance. On average the parhelia performs on par to a geforce2 ti/ultra. Really?! I thought its even much slower than that... thats good news for matrox for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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