[abeautifulmind]

How good are the new Matrox Parhelia - these are worth 550 dollars. is it worth it ?? Compared to ATI or NVIDia ?? what could be an equivalent card in the ATI or Nvidia series ?? Are these cards for a hardcore gamer ??

 

[YiffyGriffy]

Those types of cards are comparable to ATi FireGL or nVidia Quadro, they're mostly intedned for CAD development work with very high pixel precision and large amounts of frame buffer, but have no performance in games that's worthy to speak of

 

[Kittani]

I know they have great linux support

other than that they are more for fast paced business stuff than gaming. Matrox does an especially good job with their QUAD head video cards which is a must in some production financing and administration applications.