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3dfx launched its revolutionary Voodoo Graphics chipset just as fully ... and we'd become used to seeing the likes of Descent 2, Actua Soccer, Terminal Velocity, and MechWarrior 2 with only ...
In 1995, the company raised $5.5 million dollars from venture capitalists. 3Dfx released its Voodoo Graphics chipset in November 1996. Voodoo was a 3D-only add-in board (AIB) that required an ...
Just how do you follow up a graphics card as beloved, ground-breaking, and just plain damn awesome as the original 3dfx Voodoo Graphics? There was, after all, no way to repeat that gargantuan leap ...
[sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format, equipped with 64MB of RAM. This isn’t just a showpiece – this card actually ...
Founded in San Jose, California in 1994 by a trio of former Silicon Graphics employees, 3Dfx got its start making hardware for arcade machines. The company's first-gen Voodoo chipset powered ...
My PC gaming days started in the early 90s but they were super-amplified in the mid-to-late 90s with nostalgic releases from 3dfx in the form of the Voodoo family of graphics cards -- which ...
Let's talk about what 3dfx "announced" today. The declaration that they will ship a PCI Voodoo 5 6000 graphics card is not intrinsically surprising. The Voodoo 3, 4, and 5 shipped in an AGP format ...
Nvidia bought 3dfx in late 2000, before the Voodoo 5 6000 or anything like it could come to market. Nvidia and ATI (and then, AMD, after AMD bought ATI) were the only major players in the ...
The Voodoo 5 6000 was 3DFX’s final GPU design before the company was sold to Nvidia. According to Wikipedia, there were a little over 100 of the experimental graphics cards created in 2000.
The 3dfx Voodoo marks the dawn of consumer 3D graphics acceleration. This graphics accelerator, equipped with a modest 50MHz clock speed and 4/6MB of memory, not to mention a 500nm process node ...
This particular prototype is said to be in great condition, as it was personally reworked by 3dfx engineer Jindrich Semenec to operate stably at FSAA 8x mode. The Voodoo 5 6000 was ahead of its ...
In 1996, the 3Dfx VooDoo VGA chipset changed computer graphics forever. Because of the high cost of memory, most of the boards had only 4 MB of memory — which seemed a lot back then. However ...