Quiz 4 U

[Paco103]

Gotta love the B*tchn Fast 3D2000:P

That would solve all my problems with nVidia's demos now allowing execution on ATI cards Now my problem is just getting a case LONG enough for it Guess it's out of the question for a laptop card?!?!

[NDD]

Nice to see you here again eagle1

Trying to impress the ladies with old tricks ?

Welp, for the old times I dare you to tell me what this is

[$1500-P4 gamer]

4 voodoo 6's in SUPER SLI.

Ill have to see if If I can find a link I came across before. Maybe you all have seen'em. Its like a rendering station Video center. Its a Server tower with nothing-I mean nothing but Video cards top to bottem all like FireGL's or somthing. And this is hooked into other pc's for the rendering system. One I saw was quoted (just the video tower) over $100,000! Must be for making movies. Anyone else seen these huge video systems.

[Magua]

A way to use up your unused PCI slots?

[NDD]

Wrong answers

[eagle1]

Originally posted by ND
Nice to see you here again eagle1

Trying to impress the ladies with old tricks ?

Welp, for the old times I dare you to tell me what this is

Hello again ND!!!

Is that for the PC Platform?

Maybe Matrox prototype boards?

[bob05]

Aren't those cards something from Quantum 3D?

[$1500-P4 gamer]

I havent magnified it but the logos on chips seem to be the 3DFx logo. See how they slant. Its gotta be some fer 3dfx deally.

[NDD]

bob05 got it first and $1500-P4 gamer has good eyes
It's a Quantum3D Mercury. 3Dfx Voodoo2 PCI x 16, 96MB total RAM

[NDD]

And this is how it could look inside your computer



PCI slots go bye bye

[NDD]

hope I won't get banned for this one

[$1500-P4 gamer]

"Now that's texture compresion"
Dunno. Would have to see the before and after effect. How big was she before-they should market it! LOL.

[bob05]

Originally posted by ND
bob05 got it first......

YAY! I got it right!

BTW, I emailed Quantum 3D about the AAlchemy QX, the thing that used Voodoo 5 6000 technology. The starting cost is $37,999.

http://www.opengvs.com/products/AAlchemy/aalchemy.html

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Naw. Thats 37 grand for the ENTIRE rendering system. Not jus tthe cards.




"FEATURES

Dual Intel® Pentium® III or Xeon™ Pentium® 4 processors with up to 8 GB of system memory (single processor option on select models)
AAlchemy AA5 Realtime 3D Graphics Subsystems combine 4, 8 or 16 3dfx® VSA-100™ graphics accelerators with up to 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory to deliver unmatched realtime 3D performance
Ruggedized 4U 19" rack-mount chassis with shock mounted disk drives and add-in board retention mechanisms for enhanced shock and vibration immunity
Support for 2 video output channels per system on select models
Application transparent T-Buffer-based single-pass, full-scene, sub-pixel anti-aliasing with 4 or 8 sub-samples
Support for single, double and triple-buffered rendering transparency and chroma-key support
Support for T-Buffer depth-of-field, motion-blur and depth-of-focus special effects (depending on scene manager)
Support for up to 9 levels of screen door transparency for fade LOD (depending on model and scene manager)
Support for per-pixel atmospheric effects with simultaneous OpenGL® V1.2 API-compliant alpha blending and hardware support for non-linear fog table
Supports perspective correct bilinear, trilinear and selective anisotropic texture filtering with per-pixel LOD MIP mapping with Gouraud modulated, detailed and projected textures
Sustained independent triangle throughput greater than 1.5 M textured, independent triangles per second (also supports triangle meshes and strips for even higher levels of sustained polygon performance)
On-chip support for 3dfx FXT1™ (4-bpt) and 3dfx (YIQ) compressed texture formats enables on-board texture storage of up to 128 Megatexels (@ 1280 x 1024 resolution) and peak texture paging rates of up to 528 Megatexels/sec (depending on model)
Support for high-resolution texture maps (any size, up to 2048 x 2048 texels) for enhanced realism and geospecific mission rehearsal applications

SCALABLE PERFORMANCE"

Thats actually pretty cheap. Look up some more recent ones. Got a mill or two. LOL. The real prob. is no matter the bandwidth and etc. its the core GPU thats holding it back. V5 6000 is DX6 right. 7 tops. In the Dx9 era-aint gonna be much help for making games etc. Still ok for movies and stuff but again -all those nice dx9 features, even dx8 ones arent there. THats gonna hurt its "real time" rendering speed. Newer dx9 capable ones will slaughter it. Member fast yesterday-old school today. Sad but true.

[eagle1]

Hehehe Nice one.!

If you want the 3dfx Video Commercials, I think I still have them!