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49035	2002-05-15 11:12:00	Matrox has officially unveiled the new Parhelia-512 graphics solution. Here's what the president of Matrox had to say: 'The revolutionary new Matrox Parhelia-512 <www.matrox.com high-fidelity GPU delivers a new level of visual quality, excellent performance and a wide range of innovative technologies. Parhelia-512 is an 80 million transistor, 0.155, 2D, 3D and DVD/video GPU with a true 256-bit DDR memory interface providing over 20 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of raw memory bandwidth. This AGP device supports unified frame buffers up to 256MB in size and integrates two RAMDACs, a TV encoder and support for dual TMDS transmitters. Designed to surpass the expectations of the most demanding professional users and PC enthusiasts, Parhelia-512 has three major goals: to dramatically increase the quality of all aspects of visualization, to sustain high performance for the most complex and demanding graphics rendering and to deliver a number of innovative and substantive features' - Lorne Trottier, Matrox <http://www.matrox.com> president Already the reviews are coming thick and fast with articles posted on several sites as listed below: - Anandtech <www.anandtech.com - Hard|OCP <www.hardocp.com - Hardware Zone <www.hardwarezone.com - Hartware.net <www.hartware.net - Hot Hardware <www.hothardware.com - Gamers Depot <www.gamersdepot.com - Tech Report <www.tech-report.com - GamePC <www.gamepc.com - SimHQ <www.simhq.com - Icrontic <www.icrontic.com - Tom's Hardware <www.tomshardware.com Just to get the juices flowing here are snippets from the review at Anandtech: - In 'simple' games like Quake III Arena, the Parhelia-512 will definitely lose out to the GeForce4 Ti 4600. By simple we mean games that generally use no more than two textures and are currently bound by fill rate. NVIDIA's drivers are highly optimized (much more so than Matrox's) and in situations where the majority of the Parhelia's execution power is going unused, it will lose out to the Ti 4600. This can change by turning on anisotropic filtering and antialiasing however, where the balance will begin to tilt in favor of the Parhelia. - In stressful DX8 games, Matrox expects the Parhelia-512 to take the gold - either performing on par or outperforming the GeForce4 Ti 4600. Once again, as soon as you enable better texture filtering algorithms and antialiasing the Parhelia-512 should begin to seriously separate itself from the Ti 4600. The quad-texturing capabilities of the core as well as the 5-stage pixel shaders will be very handy in games coming out over the next several months. Firing a shot across the bows of Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony have just announced a $US100 price to the PlayStation 2. The price cut is effective immediately, bringing the price down to $US199, lineball with the Gamecube and $US100 less than the Xbox. Read more here <story.news.yahoo.com It will be interesting to see if the cut flows through to us here in Oz. Microsoft has released a utility that helps you completely remove Microsoft Office 2000. The program goes by the name of the Office 2000 CD1 File and Registry Eraser Utility and it will remove all those files and Windows registry settings that remain after you uninstall Office. You should only run this utility after you run the Setup program for Office 2000 and click Remove Office. Download it here <support.microsoft.com Infogrames has announced <www.worthplaying.com that Unreal Tournament 2003 has been delayed and will now not appear on shelves until July 2002. Infogrames quotes the delay is so that '...the title is of the highest standard when released.' In the wake on Sunday's debacle at the Austrian GP, the Ferrari website <www.ferrari.com> has been hacked <http: as a protest to the orders which were given to Rubens Barrichello to pull over to let Michael Schumacher win the Austrian Grand Prix. The site was hacked with a message that read BARRICHELLO ROX FERRARI SUX. WinRAR 3.0 FINAL has been released for download with a huge list of changes which you can read here <www.rarlab.com meanwhile the new version is available for download here <www.rarlab.com Western Digital have a little utility out called, Ultra ATA Manager that is used to enable or disable the Ultra ATA 33/66/100 capability on Western Digital EIDE drives that support this feature. So if you have a drive from WD it might pay to check it out. Get it here <support.wdc.com Netscape version 6.2.3 is out for download, so if your a hardcore fan grab the version for you from the links below: - Netscape 6.2.3 for Windows <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.3/windows/win32/N6Setup.exe> - Netscape 6.2.3 for Linux <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.3/unix/linux22/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz> Daemon Tools the application for advanced copy protection emulation with an implemented virtual DVD ROM drive version 3.11 is out. The only change in this version from the one last week is a small bugfix regarding Blindread (*.BWT) images. Download here <www.daemon-tools.net WinMX 3.1 has been released for download. Here's the lowdown on what WinMX does if you have never heard of it before: WinMX is a FREE file-sharing program like no other. It allows you to simultaneously connect through the decentralized WinMX Peer Networking Protocol AND to many networks based on the OpenNap and Napster protocols. This means MORE USERS and MORE SEARCH RESULTS than other sharing programs. WinMX also supports ANY FILE TYPE, allowing you access to a diverse assortment of shared VIDEO and PICTURE files as well as the usual MP3 AUDIO files. Features are: High performance peer-to-peer protocol Connect to multiple OpenNap networks simultaneously Share and DOWNLOAD ANY FILE TYPE Tracks and RESUMES broken transfers Ability to throttle upload and download bandwidth Upload and download bandwidth graphs Per-user and over-all upload AND download queuing Full chat capabilities including op commands Multiple docking window interface great for hi-res and multi-monitor systems Close program or shutdown computer (Win9x only) when transfers finish Compatible with most LAN configurations WinMX respects your privacy and doesn't contain spyware Go get it at here <www.winmx.com System Mechanic version 3.7a has been released. System Mechanic keeps your PC running smooth and error free in Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, and XP. Go here <www.iolo.com to download. Even though Windows 2000 SP3 has not been released yet, Microsoft has started work on compiling fixes to be included in Service Pack 4. It has been revealed that work started on the hotfixes on the 8th of April. If you want to have a look at the folders at SP4 FTP site <ftp://hotfix.microsoft.com/winnt/windows_2000/sp4/>. At this stage the number of fixes is up to around 98. If you want to have a look at hotfix folders for XP SP1, NT SP7 and 2000 SP3, go to the links below: 526 fixes Windows NT4 SP7 Folder <ftp://hotfix.microsoft.com/winnt/Windows_NT_4.0/sp7/> 980 fixes Windows 2000 SP3 Folder <ftp://hotfix.microsoft.com/winnt/windows_2000/sp4/> 314 fixes Windows XP SP1 Folder <ftp://hotfix.microsoft.com/winnt/Windows_XP/sp1/> The downside to most of these folders is that they are password protected, but you never know, you might lucky on a fix you've been hunting for ages. Hardware reviews: ABIT NV7-133R nForce Motherboard on TechSpot <www.techspot.com AMD Athlon XP 2000+ vs. Intel Pentium 4 Northwood CPU on HardwarePub <www.hardwarepub.com AOpen AK77-333 KT333 Motherboard on Overclockers Online <www.overclockersonline.com CoolerMaster ATC-210 Case on Invisible Dream <www.invisibledream.com Coolermaster HHC-L61 Cooler on Cipher.be <www.cipher.be CopperKing II Cooler on ipKonfig.com <www.ipkonfig.com DFI NS70-EL Motherboard on MBReview <www.mbreview.com FIC AN11 Stealth KT266A Motherboard on HardwarePub <www.hardwarepub.com Gainward Ultra/750XP Golden Sample Video Card on LostCircuits <www.lostcircuits.com Gigabyte Radeon 8500 Video Card on Reviewmakers.com <www.reviewmakers.com GlobalWin TAK68 and CAK-II 16 Coolers on Hardware Pub <www.hardwarepub.com Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE Vide Card on HardwareZone.com <www.hardwarezone.com IBM Ultrastar 73LZX (Discovery 2) Hard Drives on x-bit labs <www.xbitlabs.com Intel Pentium 4 2.4 & 2.53 GHz CPUs (in German) on Hard Tecs 4U <www.hardtecs4u.com Kingwin KT-436 Aluminum Case on Hardware Pub <www.hardwarepub.com Leadtek K7N420DA nForce 420D Video Card on VR-Zone Hardware <www.vr-zone.com Liteon External USB 2.0 CD-RW on 3dXtreme <www.3dxtreme.org Matrox Parhelia-512 Video Card on [H]ardOCP <www.hardocp.com Digit-Life <www.digit-life.com HardwareZone.com <www.hardwarezone.com and (first look) on GamePC <www.gamepc.com Mikhailtech Crucial PC2700 DDR333 RAM on Mikhail Tech <www.mikhailtech.com MSI 645E Max2-LRU SiS 645DX Motherboard on Sharky Extreme <www.sharkyextreme.com Noisecontrol Silverado heatsink fan on EXHardware <www.exhardware.com Samsung 955DF 19' Flat Screen Monitor on I am Not a Geek dot com <www.iamnotageek.com Unitech Radeon 7500 Video Card on RIVA 3D <www.riva3d.com Zalman CNPS-6000 CU Cooler (in Video) on 3dGameMan <www.3dgameman.com	Guest (0)
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