Tom's hardware review of Matrox Parhelia.

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redrumloa:  If "Tom's hrdware has been heavily favoring Radeons lately," then why did they conclude that Nvidia's GeForce4 is still on top of "the 3D performance throne??"

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GPU: 375 Mhz
RamDAC: Dual 400 Mhz

Does not sound like the test board was a production unit!

Matrox have never said their chip would run at 375MHz..

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I read Tom's hardware alot.

You should find a new site to read.. Tom has become a joke in the hardware community..

Ace's Hardware, Beyond3D and Tech Report are good sites. Ace's will post their Parhelia review later this week.

Anand is also pretty good..

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Drifting slightly off-topic.  I often see/hear people commenting how "such-and-such a card is often better than so-and-so's card, but it seems slower due to poor drivers."

While this may be true, real world performance *is* dependant on good drivers.  I mean, what good is a high performance 3D chip if the software is going to crash your system?

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I wasn't thinking about nVidia, but more in regards to some above comments and  anandtech reporting  that Matrox Parhelia drivers cause system crashes.  Everyone knows, or should know, that nVidia has the best drivers.  (But for how long...?)