I noticed an editorial at [H]ardOCP from Kyle Bennet why Matrox refused to sent [H] a review sample with the first wave of products. Are there still issues with the board? 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. Read More...

Matrox stated they might have samples next week that they could ship us for review. What is funny that this morning Matrox announced shipping Parhelia cards in 12 days or so and the sites that they have already sent cards to will be posting those reviews on the 25th of this month. Showing you guys non-retail product after the initial push of reference boards is gone by is worthless. You will need retail reviews at that point, not PREviews. Rancho*: Funny thing that is. I wonder though that we did not get a review sample since most manufacturers seem to consider Warp2Search as a mediocre tech site not capable of writing ground based reviews... (No offense meant, but this is the truth. Want to have a look at my inbox???) Read the full story