Matrox announces two new cards

[System]

the 2D is great...but ATI/Nvidia's 2D is great also...and much cheaper...

[System]

The price was similar to the GF4

hardly... cheapest parhelia is (NOW) 325$ that I've been able to find thats from newegg.com  perhaps GeForce4's cost near that some places...but I got a Ti4400 ages ago for 250.

and I wasn't impressed by the 10 FPS speed difference

the differance was/is MAJOR not 10FPS... it was quality/speed and stability... all major factors... parhelia choked on them...

parhelia's 10bit per component reduced Alpha to 1 bit ... it was a hack

[System]

I cant imagine a GF4 Ti4600 costing 500$ american let alone that much more when you do the conversion...here a GF4 Ti4600 was perhaps 350 at its absolute highest...

I had a Parhelia for a week... got to install it..tinker... benchmark and send it back to my buddy who didnt want to do the benchmarking...

It wasnt all together pathetic... tri display where cool...but it was not a stable card...and it was and is over-priced... the Quadro multi-heads where out and cost MUCH less money... the OpenGL quality/drivers/etc where poor...the 2D was great but not much differant then an Nvidia/ATI...

I think Matrox is almost done as a card company... from the G550 onward they have been stumbleing...