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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: SkyWolf on February 10, 2005, 03:17:27 PM

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: 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

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: SkyWolf on February 11, 2005, 02:56:35 PM

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

Woof

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: 214thCavalier on February 11, 2005, 03:11:25 PM

I suspect it will not be cheap enough  :)

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: FOGOLD 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.

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 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.

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: eagl 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.

Title: Matrox Cards
Post by: FOGOLD 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.