.13 should be signifcantly lower wattage than .18, with .11 even less wattage, all else being equal. But all things are NOT equal, and ATI and nVidia put a lot more onto their chips than Matrox. That's irrelevant, along with this obsession with the process size. Dan, nearly any fanless card with DV...

There are no Matrox products on 0.13u. Parhelia, P-Series, and all products based on those cores are 0.15u.

It's 0.18u, but Matrox has already abandoned the G-Series cores, so I wouldn't expect any new spin of G550.

Why does it matter anyway? It maxes at ~20 watts in 3D and ~7-8 watts in normal use.

Find an old G400 regular, passive, great 2d, best TV out quality to date. (better than Parhelia, and I'm told 9700Pro)

(Not MikeC, but) I've seen one that my buddy was building a box with, the passive sink is pretty big. Here is a good shot of it.

G400* would be best for HTPC because their TV-Out quality is still unmatched. They use the external maven chip to drive the TV, while the later G-Series cards have an internal on-die TV controller. It's just not as good. (Another Matrox fan joins the conversation, good to see there are quite a few h...

Just a little FYI, PCAbusers also said this:

I have to tell you if you have anything but a Nforce2 board in your rig right now I would consider getting this board. It has a quality feel, quality VIA drivers, ABITs quality and support, an impressive feature list, and its quick.

There should not be any quality degradation issues between any different cards using DVI. Things should be equal, but I've heard of some Nvidia cards not conforming to the proper DVI standards, and thus not working right. The edge Matrox has here is the ability of using higher resolutions with their...

I emailed them and they said it was the 1604/2MB.

I don't think it's been posted, but I was cruising over at newegg and I spotted the 160GB 8MB 7200RPM Samsung drive.

pingu666 wrote:barton is 640k

And you'll never need any more.

It hasn't just been shipped to ATi, it's being used by ATi in the 9800Pro 256MB

frosty wrote: And because UT2003 requires the cd to be in operation I won't run it as a game, just sticking with good old Q3.

Just FYI, the latest patch removes the CD check.

When I still had a Parhelia, I used a Cooljag 1U heatsink for an athlon, it worked pretty well. I'd suggest you do some searching over at MURC.

Some people have used the Zalman ZM80HP on it, and even though Zalman said it would not work, it appears to.

1. That is not an Ultra, it is a normal 5600. oops sorry it was late at night when i posted that. more proof nvidia cheats: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33688967 http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/06/IMG0006349_1.jpg More proof? When did you first bring it up? Wh...

http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDc5 read that review. watch the 5600 ultra be beaten out by the 9600 pro in every benchmark (at stock speeds, overclocked vs stock is not really viable in my opinion) Not to mention the 5800 ultra and 5900 ultra are huge and noisy. IMO and many other hardware en...

And crappier. They use a Fixed Point pipelines for pixel shaders where ATI uses floating point. This might cause FX to be quicker in apps that uses FP since ATI emulates FP with floats. But floats are much better in several ways. More precision and the circuit design becomes more clean. And one imp...

If anyone were to try this, I would tell them to be very careful. VooDoo5s weren't too accepting of mods, and sometimes died very easily when messed with.

You could get an older AMD760 board, I had an ABIT KG7RAID that supported ECC DDR.

On the Matrox site, there is no heatsink either. There won't be a fan on P650.

Radeonman: As I said, it is something you really can't tell with numbers or pictures (Although I think I saw some site, TecChannel I believe, that tested signal strength and Matrox G550 came out on top) You can't take a picture of it, screenshots won't prove anything, using a digicam on it is just s...

Oh I agree, it's just that I know people who never adjust anything and could never tell the difference, either that or they just won't admit their IQ is inferior.

You really do have to compare for yourself to see the image quality of a Matrox card. It's all subjective, and if your eyes aren't that great it really won't matter, will it?

Matrox is not one to "optimize" :wink: for benchmarks. I don't think that the nForce2 makes that much of a difference so there must be something wrong there. The KT400 scores should indicate what the performance is really like. We don't yet know the clocks of P650/P750. I have not yet seen those men...

I guarantee you that if you leave your G400 you will miss the dualhead. Having said that, I think a P650 would work pretty well for you. It's going to be faster, or at least on par with a GF4MX, it's fanless, and it's got FAA 16x which doesn't take much performance away at all and it's gorgeous. The...

What kind of performance are you looking for?

Matrox just introduced the new P650 which is passively cooled, just thought I'd drop this tidbit of info down here. It's using the new ParheliaLX chip, based on the original of course. No Triple-Head ( P750 ), but $169 MSRP and Matrox seems great to me. Edit: It appears I said "seems like great to m...

Perhaps this or this may be what you are looking for.

I know of a few people at the MatroxUsers Forum that have been using the ZM80A-HP on their Parhelias.

Check here

Also, most people with Parhelias there (myself included) have added a CoolJag 311 and RAMSinks. Check threads like this, and this.