Countdown To The New Matrox Parhelia


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Designed for demanding professional and business users, discerning PC enthusiasts and gaming connoisseurs, Matrox Parhelia? graphics accelerators combine unparalleled quality, excellent performance and innovative features to provide a completely immersive high-fidelity graphics experience.

With an unprecedented number of revolutionary technologies, Matrox Parhelia cards take 2D quality, professional productivity and 3D realism to a new level.

Key features:

512-bit GPU

256-bit DDR memory interface

128 MB DDR memory

Advanced multi-display: Triple-RGB, Dual-DVI, TV output

High performance 2D, 3D & video

Surround Gaming

10-bit GigaColor

AGP 4X

Multi-Display configurations:

Parhelia offers the most advanced multi-display support in the form of DualHead-HighFidelity, TripleHead Desktop, and Surround Gaming. This support is enabled through highly flexible output configuration options including dual-RGB, triple-RGB and dual-DVI. Matrox Parhelia cards feature two DVI-I connectors integrated on the bracket. The full flexibility of display configurations are offered to end users by the standard bundling of three cables/adaptors:

One "Y-shaped" DVI-I to dual HD-15 cable

One DVI-I to HD-15 adaptor

One HD-15 to S-video and composite cable

DualHead-HF (2 displays)

Display 1 Display 2

Analog monitor (RGB)

Analog flat panel (RGB)

Digital flat panel (DVI) Analog monitor (RGB)

Analog flat panel (RGB)

Digital flat panel (DVI)

NTSC / PAL TV

TripleHead Desktop / Surround Gaming (3 displays)

Left display Center display Right display

Analog monitor (RGB)

Analog flat panel (RGB) Analog monitor (RGB)

Analog flat panel (RGB)

Digital flat panel (DVI) Analog monitor (RGB)

Analog flat panel (RGB)

Resolution, color depth and refresh rates:

To offer the ultimate in productivity, matrox Parhelia provides the industry?s most comprehensive resolution, color depth and refresh rate support.

Max 2D/3D Max 2D/3D (primary display)

Resolution Colors

2048 x 1536 Over one billion

Resolution and refresh rates

Resolution Vertical (Hz) Horizontal (kHz)

2048 x 1536 85 130

1920 x 1440 85 130

1600 x 1200 100 130

1280 x 1024 120 130

1152 x 864 140 130

1024 x 768 160 130

800 x 600 200 130

640 x 480 200 130

Minimum system requirements:

AGP 2.0 compliant system

128 MB RAM

600 MHz CPU

Microsoft? Windows? 2000 or Windows XP operating system

(check regularly for updates on support for other operating systems)

300W system power supply

CD-ROM

Pricing:

Available as of June 30th, the 128 MB retail version of the Matrox Parhelia will sell for $399 U.S. (estimated street price). Visit the Buy Matrox section for details on where to buy Parhelia. Customers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe are also invited to pre-order their Matrox Parhelia at Shopmatrox.com.

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Is the "street" price the same as the suggested retail price? If it is, I'm sure that I'll be able to find it somewhere cheaper online. Otherwise, I'll stop waiting and just buy a Ti 4600.

The Parhelia sounds great, but considering the price and the fact that it's not out yet, it's kinda iffy between that and the Ti 4600. The 256 meg version sounds sweet though. :D

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You really want to wait for matrox card if you have ever watched a dvd or use a tv card then you definalty want this card because it has features that no other consumer card even has...

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I'm thinking of upgrading my GeForce2 MX400 (PCI) to a GeForce4 MX here pretty soon, and then moving to a Parhelia when the better ones (ie 256MB) become available. Does that sound good? :ponder:

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Thanks for the reply sputnik. I'll try and get one of those soon. My GF2 fan just started making the most god-awful noise when I booted up this morning. I think it hates me. :ermm:

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