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Graphics firm 3dfx was a pioneer in PC 3D acceleration and ploughed a deep furrow in the PC industry from about 1996, until it went insolvent in 2000.
At the aforementioned Comdex event, 3dfx showcased the VSA-100 processor including the products Voodoo 4 4500, Voodoo 5 5000/5500 and Voodoo 5 6000.
The finished full working sample is pictured above.
Original box art - click to zoom The components Anthony used to build his Voodoo 5 6000 sound pretty cheap; each VSA-100 was under US$20, and the sixteen 8MB 166MHz SDRAM modules are cheap or salvageable from old equipment, as were heatsinks, small fans and so on.
Meanwhile, a hard-to-find original could set you back $1,500 or more, as an iconic piece of computer history.
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Ahh back when AGP meant something good. I longed for a good AGP card but I think I ended up with a shitty SiS card. I later got a Riva Tnt but that was meh, I just wanted the the voodoo!!
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I have a chronic illness that prevents me from reading the article. Can you please summarise (with précis) the article and explain its three (3) main points?
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Impressive. So not only did you post a year and a half old article from a defunct hobbyist website, but the article itself is about someone recreating an unreleased graphics card from a company that has been dead for 22 years.
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How's this drama you dumb fricking c*nt?!
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I don't. I just sort by new on the main page.
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I had a Voodoo Banshee for a while when I was a wee lad but never played any 3DFX games cos I didn't know what it was really capable of :(
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This is so dumb. I could buy a used phone for $10 with a faster graphics card
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