they used to be the cards to have, where did they go?
stuck in the 90s?bennisboy wrote:
they used to be the cards to have, where did they go?
They were bought by someone - I think ATI?
maybe, or maybe its the fact I am not someone that keeps an eye on every going on in the computer sectorRyle wrote:
stuck in the 90s?bennisboy wrote:
they used to be the cards to have, where did they go?
3Dfx (voodoo) was bought out by nvidia.
That's what I heard too, from what I remember Nvidea's cards at the time were in breach of Voodoo's copyright & they were facing a huuugge lawsuit!ImposedThreat wrote:
3Dfx (voodoo) was bought out by nvidia.
So as they were a larger company, they bought Voodoo coz it was cheaper than the fines/compensation were gonna be!!
They then owned the copyright = no lawsuit!!
voodoo was bought out by nvidia about 5 years ago. they kept the voodoo name for a bit, but then got rid of it all together (they were crap anyway, i had one in my old laptop).
they weren't crap when they were the first graphics accelerators![TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
voodoo was bought out by nvidia about 5 years ago. they kept the voodoo name for a bit, but then got rid of it all together (they were crap anyway, i had one in my old laptop).
Had one on them since 1999-2002. Mine can't even play Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast!
he meant the graphics company. also they came up with the idea of SLi but there SLi was different from Nvidia's sliWilhelmSissener wrote:
www.voodoopc.com
that is all i know...
hell yeah...especially when the voodoo2's were out...i had one back in the day i was hot shit back in 98 with my pentium II 350MHz processor and 3DFX Voodoo2 w/17" flat screen crt...i had two video cards, one for the standard 2d windows stuff and the Voodoo2 for the 3d stuff...the memories, lolJanus67 wrote:
they weren't crap when they were the first graphics accelerators![TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
voodoo was bought out by nvidia about 5 years ago. they kept the voodoo name for a bit, but then got rid of it all together (they were crap anyway, i had one in my old laptop).
A form of SLI has been around for awhile.Maj.Do wrote:
he meant the graphics company. also they came up with the idea of SLi but there SLi was different from Nvidia's sliWilhelmSissener wrote:
www.voodoopc.com
that is all i know...
I believe they called it "Scan Line Interface" where the two cards would switch off doing every other line.
Scan Line Interleave
Scan Line Interlacing
Scan Line Interface
Scalable Link Interface
Call it what you want but it is just two cards splitting an image and displaying it as a whole.
I believe it was 1998 when SLI was invented...
Scan Line Interlacing
Scan Line Interface
Scalable Link Interface
Call it what you want but it is just two cards splitting an image and displaying it as a whole.
I believe it was 1998 when SLI was invented...
well I know that nVidia's term is the Scalable Link Interface, I was just saying that Voodoo's was the Scan Line Interface I thought.
I believe it's interleave.
Had a Voodoo 2 in my previous pc, pentium II 300 MHz, 128 gigs of RAM, 7.6 gig hard drive, 4 MB graphics card and... a 16 MB voodoo 2 3D graphics accelerator. And those cards weren't crap, they were top of the line back then.
Had a Voodoo 2 in my previous pc, pentium II 300 MHz, 128 gigs of RAM, 7.6 gig hard drive, 4 MB graphics card and... a 16 MB voodoo 2 3D graphics accelerator. And those cards weren't crap, they were top of the line back then.
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My friend still has a computer with a Voodoo card installed, he still thinks it's l33t for some reason, I make fun of him everytime I'm at his house.
"3dfx's decline is a matter of debate. Some attribute it to 3dfx lavishly spending on its employees - it reported spending $30,000 just on company lunches and other perks a month, even up to the last two weeks before it went under."
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i think we're the only ones who actually read that thing.T0rr3nt wrote:
"3dfx's decline is a matter of debate. Some attribute it to 3dfx lavishly spending on its employees - it reported spending $30,000 just on company lunches and other perks a month, even up to the last two weeks before it went under."
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I thought you were talking about our Voodoo, being tF-Voodoochild... come to think of it, I havn't seen him around much... Jeff must'v killed him.
YOU MONSTER!
Checked on Travis' posting activity. Boy was I wrong. Sorry Jeff.
YOU MONSTER!
Checked on Travis' posting activity. Boy was I wrong. Sorry Jeff.
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nah its actually me... i just cant help it killing an admin is soooo temptingTyferra wrote:
I thought you were talking about our Voodoo, being tF-Voodoochild... come to think of it, I havn't seen him around much... Jeff must'v killed him.
YOU MONSTER!
Checked on Travis' posting activity. Boy was I wrong. Sorry Jeff.
