Here my New Matrox Collection

    Just ordered:

    - P65 PCIe

    - G550 PCI

    The P65 PCIe is not tested at all, the G550 PCI loses against MX4000 PCI.

    G550 PCI can only be installed manually under win9x becaue the setup can't detect the G550 AGP behind the PCI2AGP Bridgechip, but it works. The bridge-chip seems to produce a lot of overhead. Frames are reallly bad. older games like HL1 are not smooth in opengl or D3D. EMBM is nice but R7000 is much faster in EMBM. No hardware TnL and also no S3TC, so MX4000 has TnL and S3TC so I went for that card. But good to see that G550 PCI exists. R7000 PCI is the best card in that class but I went for MX4000 because of better support in amithlon.

    SNI-Scovery 212 AMD K6-2/450 CXT 128MB - PCI1 (Matrox-Mystique 4MB) - PCI2 (Soundblaster 128)

    => OS2/Warp3, AMIGA-OS 3.9, WIN95B , LINUX <=

    Hi there!

    Re-build my 20 year old PC. Originally, I wanted to put a Voodoo5 in there (just like 20 years ago), but they are ridiculously expensive nowadays. I then remembered how I had admired the Parhelia when it was originally launched in 2002 (also a very special card I think...), and I took the chance to grab a Parhelia 128MB AGP on ebay for probably 20% the price of a Voodoo5. You can see it here: Zum 20. Geburtstag: Wiederbeleben als Voodoo-PC? 8)

    I like it and it works like a charm! :thumbup:

    Greets,

    Snuggles

    My 3Dfx History: 1998 - Diamond Monster 3D; 2000 - Voodoo3 3000 AGP; 2001 - MS-6168 (Voodoo 3 2000 onboard); 2002 - Voodoo5 5500 AGP

    My Retro-Systems:

    1997 Dream Machine: Pentium Pro 200, Matrox Millennium, Monster 3D, Sound Blaster 16, Yamaha DB50XG

    2000 Celeron Tualatin 1000@1333@133FSB, Gigabyte GA-6OMM7E (i815), 512MB PC133, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, Terratec DMX Xfire 1024

    2003 Duron Applebred 1600@2100@200FSB, Shuttle AN35N Ultra (nforce2), 3GB DDR400, matrox Parhelia 128 MB AGP, Chaintech AV-710

    Zitat von Snuggles

    Hi there!

    Re-build my 20 year old PC. Originally, I wanted to put a Voodoo5 in there (just like 20 years ago), but they are ridiculously expensive nowadays. I then remembered how I had admired the Parhelia when it was originally launched in 2002 (also a very special card I think...), and I took the chance to grab a Parhelia 128MB AGP on ebay for probably 20% the price of a Voodoo5. You can see it here: Zum 20. Geburtstag: Wiederbeleben als Voodoo-PC? 8)

    I like it and it works like a charm! :thumbup:

    Greets,

    Snuggles

    Hey nice man, got some pics of this cool build?
    Would be very nice to see! I always loved Matrox, they are the masters of image quality & image fidelity, Parhelia does that very well.

    Here's mine with a Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 2503 with Universal AGP 2.0 x4/x8 slot, 1 of 1500 made all the other cards used the AGP 3.0 x8 connector.
    With a PC flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900 in the very bottom PCI slot:


    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von Gold Leader (14. März 2023 um 21:25)

    Zitat von Gold Leader

    Here's mine with a Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 2503 with Universal AGP 2.0 x4/x8 slot, 1 of 1500 made all the other cards used the AGP 3.0 x8 connector.
    With a PC flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900 in the very bottom PCI slot:

    Hi!

    Nice combination with the rare Pahelia and Voodoo5! :respekt:

    My 3Dfx History: 1998 - Diamond Monster 3D; 2000 - Voodoo3 3000 AGP; 2001 - MS-6168 (Voodoo 3 2000 onboard); 2002 - Voodoo5 5500 AGP

    My Retro-Systems:

    1997 Dream Machine: Pentium Pro 200, Matrox Millennium, Monster 3D, Sound Blaster 16, Yamaha DB50XG

    2000 Celeron Tualatin 1000@1333@133FSB, Gigabyte GA-6OMM7E (i815), 512MB PC133, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, Terratec DMX Xfire 1024

    2003 Duron Applebred 1600@2100@200FSB, Shuttle AN35N Ultra (nforce2), 3GB DDR400, matrox Parhelia 128 MB AGP, Chaintech AV-710

    The original fan was very noisy, so I did an upgrade: Zalman ZM-80C heatpipe VGA cooler. Introduced in 2003, and compatible with the Parhelia. Works very well as long as there is some case ventilation. Suits the silent system much better!

    My 3Dfx History: 1998 - Diamond Monster 3D; 2000 - Voodoo3 3000 AGP; 2001 - MS-6168 (Voodoo 3 2000 onboard); 2002 - Voodoo5 5500 AGP

    My Retro-Systems:

    1997 Dream Machine: Pentium Pro 200, Matrox Millennium, Monster 3D, Sound Blaster 16, Yamaha DB50XG

    2000 Celeron Tualatin 1000@1333@133FSB, Gigabyte GA-6OMM7E (i815), 512MB PC133, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, Terratec DMX Xfire 1024

    2003 Duron Applebred 1600@2100@200FSB, Shuttle AN35N Ultra (nforce2), 3GB DDR400, matrox Parhelia 128 MB AGP, Chaintech AV-710

    Zitat von Snuggles
    Zitat von Gold Leader

    Here's mine with a Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 2503 with Universal AGP 2.0 x4/x8 slot, 1 of 1500 made all the other cards used the AGP 3.0 x8 connector.
    With a PC flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900 in the very bottom PCI slot:

    Hi!

    Nice combination with the rare Pahelia and Voodoo5! :respekt:

    Hey thanks man!
    Very cool to see an other Matrox Parhelia lover here! NOOICE!! :respekt::respekt:<3

    Zitat von Snuggles

    The original fan was very noisy, so I did an upgrade: Zalman ZM-80C heatpipe VGA cooler. Introduced in 2003, and compatible with the Parhelia. Works very well as long as there is some case ventilation. Suits the silent system much better!

    If you ever need help with the drivers on to get the best performance and most recent updates for your P512 but still having the classic Control panel from 2003 here's my guide on how to do that:
    RE: Here my New Matrox Collection

    And if you need help feel free to DM me any time :)

    Also I have made an entire archive of all Matrox Parhelia driver kits, it took me some time to find out which driver combination worked best, until one of my x-3dfx staff members gave me the idea to use the May 2007 WDM driver in combination with the September 2003 control panel and this solved a lot of issues on my end.