Author Topic: Matrox Cards (Read 406 times)

SkyWolf · « **on:** February 10, 2005, 03:17:27 PM »

Has anyone ever tried to use one of these in AH? Matrox Parhelia that is? I have a chance at one cheap.
Thanks,
Woof

SkyWolf · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2005, 02:56:35 PM »

Heh... I'm guessing that's a no then.

Woof

214thCavalier · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2005, 03:11:25 PM »

I suspect it will not be cheap enough

FOGOLD · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2005, 04:37:10 PM »

Those cards were excellent office cards but really avoid for gaming. Better cards for gaming can be had for very little, even a Geforce 4 would be better.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2005, 09:05:45 PM »

Dont quote me on it, because I cant remember where I read it and I could be remembering wrong.

I believe I read a review of several of their offerings, and the testers found Matrox (on at least some of their models) had tried to save money by making the memory to GPU only 64-bit. Slowed down gaming performance considerably.

eagl · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2005, 08:22:29 AM »

Matrox led the way with image quality and new features for quite a while... The G200 made better images than the 3dfx and nvidia cards and one of their next card was the first with bump mapping, but they never could push enough pixels or triangles to be fast enough for gaming. Maybe if they'd started aggressive optimization like the other manufacturers started doing to beat each other, then they'd have survived but for gaming they never were that good simply because they weren't fast enough.

FOGOLD · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2005, 11:47:16 AM »

And to be fair to Matrox, they never seriously pushed themselves at gamers, though they did have a pop round th time of Geforce 2 / 3.