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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: GadgetMaster on June 19, 2002, 03:16:32 AM
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This new line of 128 MB graphics boards is based on the revolutionary Matrox Parhelia-512 high fidelity GPU which has received incredible industry coverage since its introduction last month
The Matrox Parhelia is priced at £279 and €435 and will be available in late June 2002. Visit our Web site for additional information and Matrox distributors and reseller contact information.
Preorder link here:
http://shopmatrox.com/preorder/parhelia512/home.asp (http://shopmatrox.com/preorder/parhelia512/home.asp)
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"preorder"
This is the final proof the the Parachutter-GFX-card really is
an Amiga-related product :-D :-P
BtW: Anybody who spends €435 on a GFX-Card is nuts ->
more proof it's Amiga-related :-x :-x
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You think that if Ati or nVidia came out with something simmilar the price would be lover? Think again...
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Some preliminary impressions of the card:
http://forums.matroxusers.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33757
$399 is the going rate for the top end graphics card on the market it appears, and this card is no exception. Cheaper versions will come with time.
Graham
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BtW: Anybody who spends €435 on a GFX-Card is nuts ->
LOL you are funny Kronos!!! Havn't you ever seen the prices of a NVIDIA Geforce card when it is first released? It is always MUCH higher than 435euro.
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BtW: Anybody who spends €435 on a GFX-Card is nuts ->
Naah. I bought my 64MB GeForce2 GTS card when they were new to the market, and it cost me a bomb. When top of the range newest technology cards come out, they are always ridiculously expensive.
OTOH, anyone thinking about pre-ordering at these prices needs his head examining. There is still no indication how long it will be before AOS4 comes out, and even on Linux, PPC XFree86 drivers for these cards will probably take a while to be released and mature. By then, the price is likely to drop a bit, so I advise everyone to wait until it makes more sense to buy them.
Don't be taken in by pre-ordering scams!
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The spec's call for AGP 2.0 minimum.
Since A1 is AGP 1.0 (I believe??), will this card even work in A1????
Loki :-?
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It will work in AGP 2x mode.
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Sometimes it seems to be unbelieveable difficult to educate people...
Loki, you better read this:
AmigaOneG3-SE http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/information.php
And for the AmigaOne-XE http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/300502update.php
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The question no one seems to want to answer is "what are the implications of having one PCI slot on the same bus as the AGP slot?". Can the AGP slot be used in x 2 mode with a PCI card installed and working in the PCI slot?
Every time questions like this come up Eyetech's response seems to be hostile and defensive, and rarely elucidating. Then again, maybe they just have an aversion to my name, so has anyone else got a specific and detailed answer to the above questions?
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@bhoggett,
dont quote me, but this is how i read it:
you can use a PCI card in the slot near the AGP slot and use an AGP card at the same time, but whether you'll get AGP 2x performance out of the graphics card is another matter, depending on the bandwidth - since they are on the same Bus.
so I imagine that a SCSI3 card with 10 devices on in that PCI slot will seriously impinge on the AGP's available bandwidth, hurting performance.
my advice if (and only If ! ;-) )i am right, is to use a low demand PCI card there if you must.
does that make sense?
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Hey!!! - Thats only about 800+ Aussie dollars!
I know someone who payed well over $1000 for a GeForce3!
$800 dollars seems like a bargan compared to other cards with their debute prices. This card also seems to do a lot more too!
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Will this card def. work with the A1G3 and A1XE out of the box?
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@ D@n:
Well, Fleecy posted on Ann when the card was announced, and I think he made it clear Matrox is an AInc partner. How they are patners is another matter, wich I don't know:)