Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 11, 2002 @09:48PM from the it's-almost-like-they're-not-really-leaks dept.

This Anonymous Coward was one of many readers to point to sites with information on Matrox's upcoming Parhelia-512 graphics card: "It appears that some foreign hardware sites have violated NDA and posted some very juicy details on Matrox's next generation hardware. iXBT's review can be found here(1), and a MURC posting with some other pics from China can be found here (2). It looks like the real deal. Will Matrox wake up from their long slumber in the 3D gaming market, or will this card be another stopgap like the G550 was?" Update: 05/12 14:07 GMT by T : Alexander Medvedev of ixbt.com points to the English version now online as well, and notes : "Please note, we can't violate NDA becouse we _do _not _sign _anything with Matrox Graphics. And never receive any info from Matrox."

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Re:VERY low FPS by Toraz+Chryx · 2002-05-11 22:18 · Score: 5, Informative

It should be noted that the very act of taking a screenshot can stall the system.

try taking a screenshot of 3dmark using a utility that writes it to disk immediately, most likely the system will stutter, and it's DURING that stutter that the image is actually captured (hence the low fps readout)

the phenomenon occurs with Quake engined games as well. probably others...