Parhelia Weakness?

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Well the Matrox Parhelia has been announced as being available in all of 12 days, but we still havent seen any actual benchmarks etc. Word is that those benchmarks will be hitting the streets around the 25th, but HardOCP has something you might want to read in the mean time:

Matrox said they would not be sending us a review unit on the same schedule as other sites and then revealed some interesting reasons. Matrox stated that due to the nature of our testing that they were not “comfortable” with sending us a Parhelia card. They seemed to think that we would be a bit too rough on the Parhelia and possibly show some issues that the 'enthusiast' might identify as weaknesses. Logic would dictate that this of course means that Matrox thinks that the hardware review sites getting the first round of Parhelias would not expose those weaknesses. I had to take that as a compliment. Still, you might keep this in mind when you see the initial reviews hit and we will of course make sure you are aware of them as we always want to keep our readers up to date with current information. [snip]

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