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Hi guy


Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
history of 3dfx and what happened to them.



Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
now...................hehehheheheh


Thanks

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:42:02 GMT, Mojo <mojo@juno.com> wrote:

>Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
>first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
>SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
>and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
>1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
>history of 3dfx and what happened to them.

NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
and it was game over.
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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
>
> NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
> rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
> with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
> and it was game over.
>

3dfx also overextended themselves when they started manufacturing their own
graphics cards (instead of just making the GPUs like NVidia). In addition,
their console deal with Sega fell through which cut off a huge source of
potential revenue.

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:06:16 -0500, "Tim" <argybargy@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>3dfx also overextended themselves when they started manufacturing their own
>graphics cards (instead of just making the GPUs like NVidia). In addition,
>their console deal with Sega fell through which cut off a huge source of
>potential revenue.

Oh yeah, I forgot about those. Didn't they take Sega to court and win
compensation?
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"Tim" <argybargy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
>>
>> NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
>> rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
>> with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
>> and it was game over.
>>
>
> 3dfx also overextended themselves when they started manufacturing their
> own graphics cards (instead of just making the GPUs like NVidia). In
> addition, their console deal with Sega fell through which cut off a huge
> source of potential revenue.
>
And all Sega can really do now is arcade stuff, (but is it the hardware?)

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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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>
> Didn't they take Sega to court and win compensation?
> --

I know they filed a lawsuit which I think was settled out of court, I don't
know the amount though.

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:14:23 -0000, "Ne><uS" <Diablo@hell.org> wrote:

>And all Sega can really do now is arcade stuff, (but is it the hardware?)

I think Sega announced a few months back that they were pulling out of
hardware and concentrating on software.
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> I think Sega announced a few months back that they were pulling out of
> hardware and concentrating on software.

Tiz a shame, they did some good stuff in their heyday.

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If I remember correctly nvidia was touting a lot of new technology, most of
which had no real world value, it was a marketing ploy. The TNT was a great
card though, which set nvidia.

Mike

"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:42:02 GMT, Mojo <mojo@juno.com> wrote:
>
>>Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
>>first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
>>SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
>>and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
>>1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
>>history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
> NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
> rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
> with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
> and it was game over.
> --
> Andrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com
> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
> please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
> Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.

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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:42:02 GMT, Mojo <mojo@juno.com> wrote:
>
>>Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
>>first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
>>SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
>>and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
>>1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
>>history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
> NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
> rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
> with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
> and it was game over.

Anything that uses glide misses the 3dfx cards. There is a lot of good
technology that is scarfed up and put on the shelf. Go figure.

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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:42:02 GMT, Mojo <mojo@juno.com> wrote:
>
>>Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
>>first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
>>SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
>>and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
>>1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
>>history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
> NVidia caught up with them in terms of performance and offered 32bit
> rendering. 3Dfx stated that users don't need 32bit and the users voted
> with their wallets. When 3Dfx started to die, NVidia bought them out
> and it was game over.

Not really. 3Dfx was only bought up after they went bust.

They went bust because their products in the pipeline of development didn't
get to market in time to generate the cash to support the rest of the
business.

With more cash coming in, they would have blown nVidia out of the water with
their new products based on SLi. Instead, nVidia was given a clear playing
field when they went under.

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> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
> now...................hehehheheheh

You might enjoy seeing Doom 3 running on them then:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1462

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"Mojo" <mojo@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guy
>
>
> Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
> first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
> SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
> and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
> 1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
> history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
>
>
> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
> now...................hehehheheheh
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

Why was 3DFX SLI good? Nvidia's is only similer in "acronym" and dosn't
stand for "Scan line interleave" at all.

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They made bad business decisions and were bought out by Nvidia.

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"Mojo" <mojo@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guy
>
>
> Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
> first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
> SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
> and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
> 1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
> history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
>
>
> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
> now...................hehehheheheh
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

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"Tone-EQ" <tony.cue@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
>> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
>> now...................hehehheheheh
>
> You might enjoy seeing Doom 3 running on them then:
> http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1462
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tony. (tony.cue(at)tiscali.co.uk)
>
> Discogs: building the definitive database of electronic music...
> http://www.discogs.com

Wow - not just the frame-rates though, it doesn't even look like the game I
played, the graphics looked soooo primitive!

Crimson Liar


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