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Heavy_Equipment · 06-27-2002, 02:17 PM

Read the review at Anandtech. In my opinion, Anand has the most thorough reviews.

Anyway to paraphrase the review, this card was aimed at the graphics/professional crowd, which has been Matrox's bread and butter all along. They are apparently going to ramp up to the performance market...I imagine that they are testing the water in the 3D market as well, it's about to get pretty friggin' hot,(NV30, R300, 3DLabs/Creative, ...) so I wouldn't want to show all my cards either right now. But as Matrox admits, at the .15 micron process, they ran out of room on the die, so things had to be left out to make room for the features they wanted to push. Read it all here

I like the triple monitor idea, and the card starts to get competitive with the GF4 4200 at high resolution, but I would really like to see them do a revision on it, put a decent cooler on it, and run it at 2002 clock speeds. (it's at 220/550 MHz retail, 200/550 OEM vs. 300/650 for a GF4) The Parhelia uses 3.3ns Infineon ram...so 650 MHz DDR shouldn't be a problem, even though they say faster isn't needed. (HELLO...over-clockers here

) The Visiontek GF4 4600 uses 3.6ns Samsung with no cooling at 650 MHz.

So Kev, if there ends up being a "cool bits" type app for the matrox, I would have to think yes, another 100 MHz on the core clock, and this thing would be a contender. 200 MHz more would be way too cool. But unless someone writes an app to OC it...

06-27-2002, 02:17 PM	#9
Heavy_Equipment Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Posts: 282	Read the review at Anandtech. In my opinion, Anand has the most thorough reviews. Anyway to paraphrase the review, this card was aimed at the graphics/professional crowd, which has been Matrox's bread and butter all along. They are apparently going to ramp up to the performance market...I imagine that they are testing the water in the 3D market as well, it's about to get pretty friggin' hot,(NV30, R300, 3DLabs/Creative, ...) so I wouldn't want to show all my cards either right now. But as Matrox admits, at the .15 micron process, they ran out of room on the die, so things had to be left out to make room for the features they wanted to push. Read it all here I like the triple monitor idea, and the card starts to get competitive with the GF4 4200 at high resolution, but I would really like to see them do a revision on it, put a decent cooler on it, and run it at 2002 clock speeds. (it's at 220/550 MHz retail, 200/550 OEM vs. 300/650 for a GF4) The Parhelia uses 3.3ns Infineon ram...so 650 MHz DDR shouldn't be a problem, even though they say faster isn't needed. (HELLO...over-clockers here ) The Visiontek GF4 4600 uses 3.6ns Samsung with no cooling at 650 MHz. So Kev, if there ends up being a "cool bits" type app for the matrox, I would have to think yes, another 100 MHz on the core clock, and this thing would be a contender. 200 MHz more would be way too cool. But unless someone writes an app to OC it...