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marsomega · Mar 9, 2005

:lol

Single SLI(NV) 6800 Ultra Card. (Hell, BOARD.)

56k Warning..See it in all it's glory.
http://www.hardspell.com/newsimage/2005-3-9-14-20-31-945010327.jpg

One word...Monolithic!

TekunoRobby · Mar 9, 2005

Hey marsomega!

Reminds me of:

XMonkey · Mar 9, 2005

Wow, I'd pretty much say that takes the crown from 3DFX...but it would be close because putting 4 processors on one card was just madness at that time.

Angst · Mar 9, 2005

Actually I still have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 on my comp. Needless to say I don't play any games on it anymore...

Funky Papa · Mar 9, 2005

I think I just soiled myself a little. And SLI was the shit back in the old days, everything ran sooo damn fine with two Voodoo 2 cards, Quake 2 deathmatch and Unreal were pure sex.

tahrikmili · Mar 9, 2005

$1000 for a single graphics card is so dumb. Not to mention that SLI is shit..

Culex · Mar 9, 2005

The Voodoo 5 5500 was an awesome card for it's time and actually delievered with it's multi VPU approach. It also didn't cost half as much as this card most likely will.

Ferrio · Mar 9, 2005

Superkryo?

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

Culex said:
The Voodoo 5 5500 was an awesome card for it's time and actually delievered with it's multi VPU approach. It also didn't cost half as much as this card most likely will.

What was so awesome about it? That it required its own nuclear power plant to run? Or that it didn't fit in a lot of cases because it was so big?

3Dfx died for a reason. They got stupid.

Culex · Mar 9, 2005

Dr_Cogent said:
What was so awesome about it? That it required its own nuclear power plant to run? Or that it didn't fit in a lot of cases because it was so big?

3Dfx died for a reason. They got stupid.

You're thinking of the Voodoo 5 6000. That needed it's own powerplant and was really long.

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

Culex said:
You're thinking of the Voodoo 5 6000. That needed it's own powerplant.

My mistake.

Regardless, 3Dfx produced it's own demise IMO. Their cards were behind in features, and their strategy of slapping more of the same on a single board wasn't all that fabulous.

Personally, I think SLI is a big waste of money as well.

Culex · Mar 9, 2005

Dr_Cogent said:
My mistake.

Regardless, 3Dfx produced it's own demise IMO. Their cards were behind in features, and their strategy of slapping more of the same on a single board wasn't all that fabulous.

Personally, I think SLI is a big waste of money as well.

Yea, they sure did kill themselves. 3DFX missed a product cycle and with the ongoing lawsuits between Nvidia and themselves, they were bleeding money out of the anus.

Vormund · Mar 9, 2005

You can't see the difference between 16-bit and 32-bit colour with high framerates!

:lol

tahrikmili · Mar 9, 2005

Dr_Cogent said:
What was so awesome about it? That it required its own nuclear power plant to run? Or that it didn't fit in a lot of cases because it was so big?

That it could do FREE 2x SSAA on the chip? And that it made a MASSIVE difference in IQ?

3Dfx died for a reason. They got stupid.

No, they died because they missed two product cycles, that didn't mean their products were inferior. I would still pick a Voodoo 3 over TNT2 ANY DAY. Consumers were stupid and went for 32-bit colors at 5fps..

Barnimal · Mar 9, 2005

wow. does the cast of reboot live here?

tedtropy · Mar 9, 2005

marsomega said:
:lol

Single SLI(NV) 6800 Ultra Card. (Hell, BOARD.)

56k Warning..See it in all it's glory.
http://www.hardspell.com/newsimage/2005-3-9-14-20-31-945010327.jpg

One word...Monolithic!

Geez. Two years later, somebody is going to feel really stupid for having bought that card.

Dice · Mar 9, 2005

DarkAngyl · Mar 9, 2005

Superkyro! Ahhh I miss those days...

tedtropy · Mar 9, 2005

Dice said:

Hah, as big as a double-wide and it only has 160MB of VRAM. I'm sorry, I meant OMG 160MBorz XBOXteh suck~!1

Teknopathetic · Mar 9, 2005

Dude, take a look at when that post was made. in 2000, 160mb of ram on a video card alone was *ridiculous* (just as much as Deadmeat's post).

.hacked · Mar 9, 2005

Can you run 2 in SLI?

tedtropy · Mar 9, 2005

Teknopathetic said:
Dude, take a look at when that post was made. in 2000, 160mb of ram on a video card alone was *ridiculous* (just as much as Deadmeat's post).

I realize this, I'm just noting how comical it is considering the size.

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

tahrikmili said:
That it could do FREE 2x SSAA on the chip? And that it made a MASSIVE difference in IQ?

No, they died because they missed two product cycles, that didn't mean their products were inferior. I would still pick a Voodoo 3 over TNT2 ANY DAY. Consumers were stupid and went for 32-bit colors at 5fps..

Well, first of all, nothing is free. The bandwidth was designed so it could do the FSAA without much of a perf hit if any. I don't agree with the "free" philosophy. It just had enough headroom to not impact the fps greatly. The card was also expensive, so free? Hmmm - no.

Also, they were falling behind feature wise. Consumers weren't stupid, 3Dfx was stupid. Hell, they were still supporting crappy low res textures with the Voodoo 3. LAME.

Mrbob · Mar 9, 2005

Awesome.

Does this card also double as a furnace to heat your home?! That thing must be running hot!

tahrikmili · Mar 9, 2005

Dr_Cogent said:
Also, they were falling behind feature wise. Consumers weren't stupid, 3Dfx was stupid. Hell, they were still supporting crappy low res textures with the Voodoo 3. LAME.

You know what's lame? To talk out of one's ass with complete disregard for the fact that Voodoo 3's competitor offered 32-bit and higher-res texture support at 5fps at most games and had a worse 16-bit performance than the Voodoo 3. LAME.

dark10x · Mar 9, 2005

Vormund said:
You can't see the difference between 16-bit and 32-bit colour with high framerates!

:lol

To be fair, 3DFX's V3 and above did a fantastic job with only 16-bit color. It really DID look very near the 32-bit color produced by the TNT and other similar cards. One thing you have to remember is that the TNT produced absolutely AWFUL looking 16-bit color results while Voodoo 3 managed to almost completely avoid dithering and other 16-bit artifacts. Voodoo 2, on the other hand, had awful output.

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

tahrikmili said:
You know what's lame? To talk out of one's ass with complete disregard for the fact that Voodoo 3's competitor offered 32-bit and higher-res texture support at 5fps at most games and had a worse 16-bit performance than the Voodoo 3. LAME.

5 fps? Bullshit.

http://www.tweak3d.net/reviews/stb/velocity4400/STB-Velocity4400-2.shtml
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/144/3/

Those are just the TNT video cards. Not even the TNT 2.

I had the Voodoo, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3 , TNT, and TNT 2 cards. I know the difference. I ran with 32 bit color, yeah - there was a performance hit, but you are completely exaggerating it. You, sir - are full of it.

I think your ass is doing the talking, sorry.

Like I said before, 3Dfx died for a reason. They couldn't compete from a features standpoint and they also couldn't compete from a hardware design standpoint. They weren't innovating diddly fucking squat, and they deserved to die.

marsomega · Mar 9, 2005

tahrikmili said:
That it could do FREE 2x SSAA on the chip? And that it made a MASSIVE difference in IQ?

No, they died because they missed two product cycles, that didn't mean their products were inferior. I would still pick a Voodoo 3 over TNT2 ANY DAY. Consumers were stupid and went for 32-bit colors at 5fps..

No....

NVIDIA has indeed produced a chip that's superior to the new and not even yet released Voodoo3 and Creative, Diamond and the likes can't wait to screw up the sales of Voodoo3. NVIDIA is in a lucky situation, almost everybody in the business is on their side against 3Dfx. I wonder what is going to happen to poor and soon 'bullied' 3Dfx in the next few months.

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/19990312/nvidia-10.html

tahrikmili said:
You know what's lame? To talk out of one's ass with complete disregard for the fact that Voodoo 3's competitor offered 32-bit and higher-res texture support at 5fps at most games and had a worse 16-bit performance than the Voodoo 3. LAME.

You know, it took just 5 minutes to look up a comparative review of the two biggest competitors at the time...

marsomega · Mar 9, 2005

dark10x said:
To be fair, 3DFX's V3 and above did a fantastic job with only 16-bit color. It really DID look very near the 32-bit color produced by the TNT and other similar cards. One thing you have to remember is that the TNT produced absolutely AWFUL looking 16-bit color results while Voodoo 3 managed to almost completely avoid dithering and other 16-bit artifacts. Voodoo 2, on the other hand, had awful output.

I disagree. The game that came bundled with the TNT, Motorhead, was absolutely gorgeous and spanked any claim or visual evidence that 16 bit was enough.

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/creative-m64.html

5 fps. My ass.

teepo · Mar 9, 2005

THIS ISN'T 1999 AND NEITHER VE3D.

Dr_Cogent · Mar 9, 2005

teepo said:
THIS ISN'T 1999 AND NEITHER VE3D.

:lol :lol :lol

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