QuoteIf you're willing to post a picture of the back, why not the front?

Because I have 1.3 gig of 3dfx images to search through just to find that image (which shows utterly no ram chips at all on the back of the card I.E. all the chips are on front which means at least some of the chips would have to be 1 mb at a minimum just to hit a minimum retail size of a 8MB Voodoo II board.

What-ever.

Just 'cause you have not seen one isn't my problem. I named three companies that made them, I suggest looking instead of being rude.

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I would like to see a picture of your 12Mb Voodoo2 w/1Mb memory chips.
Who made this 1Mb memory chip Voodoo2 card?

Powercolor, 3dfx/STB and Aisha, I have examples of these boards from all three makers. The 3dfx board has spots for ram on the back but are unpopulated and the Powercolor and Aisha boards have no ram locations at all on the back.



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QuoteOriginally posted by Jules


Has this card any advantage vs. an Diamond voodoo1 ?

Has heatsinks, might be able to run it at a higher clock speed.

For 10 Euro plus shipping it can be yours.

QuoteOriginally posted by perer
it is stil a nice card thought.

If you are looking for one I have one (and other different boards) for sale or trade. I'm trimming down the number of items in my collection as it has gotten a bit unwieldy in size.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/album41?page=2

QuoteOriginally posted by enthomologist

First of all, a bit of history. They WERE actually 6MB Voodoo 1 boards

There were a limited number of 8MB boards made for PC use by Skywell if I remember correct that used the Voodoo Graphics original design PCB with ram on the front and back of the card.

Also VillageTronic made 8MB boards (MacMagic) for use in Mac computers.

The board pictured above is an ATC board with 4 MB.

All set, no longer obtaining cards.

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1) Taking off the resources from Rampage development

What part of "THEY NEEDED TO DEVELOP A 2D CORE" isn't clear?

They had NONE and the day of a seperate 3D card was gone as soon as the first AGP motherboards were sold.

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2) Changing their focus from high-end, kickass products

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Totally ignoring the fact that was all they had to release (V1/VII).

This is totally useless speculation.

1) Banshee sold over a million chipsets, hardly a blunder.

2) At some point 3dfx needed to develop a 2D core, and Banshee was it. The same core was used in Voodoo 3.

3) If they had to pull people off Rampage then perhaps 3dfx should have had more engineers.

4) Rampage also suffered from "feature creep" you can't ship a product in a prompt manner if you keep changing the design.

Most excellent, thanks Hank! I must have missed that in the AAlchemy manuals.

QuoteOriginally posted by Phalanx

The most chips they ever ran in SLI was 32 in the AAlchemy system which uses 4 boards with 8 VSA-100 chips per board.

Even then I have to politely point out, that each Aalchemy board renders to a seprate monitor.

QuoteOriginally posted by secretfj

wow.....
it's huge!! (i mean tge AAlchemy 8164)
but seems the owner himself can't get it to run, right?

yet.

QuoteOriginally posted by agrelaphon

Gary, I think GF2 did FSAA in software, so it can't be fast.

Fast enough to beat a V6000 in some benchmarks, who cares how it's done?

The page in on my website under "benchmarks"

QuoteOriginally posted by secretfj

seems Nv's AA ability is far behind Voodoo in terms of speed..
just read a review about a GeForce 2 MX and V4 4500...

I did a page of benchmarks just a few months ago- at 1024 x 768 with 2 x AA in Quake3 the 4500 takes a 11 fps loss to a GF2 MX.

A GF2-pro gives a V5-6000 a run for the money, I doubt a hot rodded V4 would even come close.

Been there, ran the benchmarks.