oh what the hell, ill post this...

[gokuss4]

the 3dpower rampage card

4 way SLI (2 Rampage chips and 2 T&L units)
32-512 MB memory support (200MHz DDR)
12.8GB/sec memory bandwidth
1.6Gigapixel fill rate (core clock at 200MHZ)
150 million triangles/polygons per second
AGP4x, 0.18 micron, 32 bit rendering
Full DirectX 8.0 Features
Advanced T-buffer, Hardware T&L, Curved Surfaces, Full Pixel Shader, Quad texturing Photorealisitic rendering, Photoshop effects H2 2000

3dfx is gonna be back a live well sort of as 3dpower with 90% of the employees that worked at 3dfx.

i think they're workin on it right now. THATS A MONSTER OF A CARD. THAT BLOWS AWAY THE GEFORCE 4 TI4600 LIKE IT WAS NOTHING

 

[Slougi]

cool.
maybe some proof might be nice, as most of 3dfx's patents belong to nvidia now. And 200Mhz DDR memory doesn't have a bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec. furthermore if there are 4 chips on the board it will cost damn much.

/moved

 

[blizz]

/phones Sony to tell them what chip to use in the PS3



goddamm that's excessive

I have one question, will it burn out on me like the Geforce2MX did the last time I tried to upgrade?

 

[(*_*)MARK]

excellent

Actually another thing does anyone have a clue how much will da beauty cost.

 

[blizz]

and I just imagined the cooling this sucker is going to need

and I guess to get around the patents they've altered it just enough for it to be considered and original design.

LOL shouldn't this be in Tech Talk?

 

[gokuss4]

not sure if its even gonna come out, thats why my topic is what the hell ill post this. but LETS HOPE 3DFX WILL COME BACK AS 3DPOWER MWAHAHAHAHA!!! and restarts the rampage project, like i say, 3dfx has always been ahead of its time. the voodoo5 6000 basically proves it and same with the voodoo2 when it first came out, HELL WHEN ALL THEIR CARDS FIRST CAME OUT THEY WERE AHEAD OF ITS TIME!!!

 

[Josep]

interesting, i'd like to know more, have any place where there is an article based on what your talking about gokuss4?

 

[gokuss4]

i told you its a rumour, but the specs for the rampage were true. btw 3dpower is a real company, and they do have 90% of the 3dfx's employees, but im hoping they'll release the rampage soon... i heard that 3dfx wouldn't have gone out of business if they didn't delay the voodoo5 6000 and did let it go out in the retail market...

 

[pj64er]

hopefully it still supports Glide, so we can use it for Glide64!

 

[2fast4u]

depends if nvidia has bought the rights on the glide api. would be a shame.

 

[gokuss4]

hey the list of the perfect computer

CTX PV720A 17" LCD Flat Panel Display 1280x1024 @ 75hz
ATXPOW450PRO 450 Watt Power Supply
A7V333 (KT333 + DDR333) Series Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Western Digital 120GB SE ATA/100 7200RPM 8MB Buffer
1.44 Floppy Drive
Micron 2.0GB DDR SDRAM PC2700
ASUS V8460Ultra GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Graphics Card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Ex
3Com® 100 Secure Fiber-FX Network Interface Card
ATAPI Half-Height DVD-ROM DRIVE 16X/48X SD-M1612
16X Write/24X Read CD-R/CD-RW Drive SR-C8102

maybe except the monitor but thats all you need

 

[Josep]

No no no, moniter: 50inch PLASMA DISPLAY -1366 X 768 RESOLUTION - HDTV about 15,000 bucks but thats just about the best

the new p4 2.4ghz acutally beats the amd athlon xp 2100

the extigy or however you spell it is the better model than the audigy

and come now, dvd burner does regular cd burning, cd reading, dvd reading and of course dvd burning

i guess the perfect computer comes in one's opinion now if they only have a radeon8500dv with 128mb of ddr ram...

and fibre channel hd kick ass, 10000rpms, i have one myself

 

[Remote]

I don't believe it until I see it, at the moment of writing I can't remember the other company who according to they had the most revolutionizing graphic chip in the world. Bit I have heard news of Matrox coming out with a new card soon, it's should be based on either this circuit or the other unnamed card, which I believe is finnish - most likely BitBoys.

 

[Eddy]

Let me clean this rumor up

3DPower did pick up some 3dfx employees, but they are not manufacturing 3dfx/glide cards, they are manufacturing nvidia boards.

Even if 3dpower had the ability to launch the rampage, it wouldnt be able to use Glide technology, because, nvidia bought the glide API from 3dfx when they went bankrupt. Right now, it seems they have done nothing with glide, but store it and not use it, Maybe in the furutre, theyll try to include glide4x or something in their cards as their thirciary API, but i doubt it.

The rampage, was indeed a real card, it was gonna be relased after the voodoo series, ending with the voodoo 5 6000. But the specs that Goku gave out, are a bit farfetched, but it was going to have two t&l units, two voodoo 5 proccesors, and 256mb of ram, which would have gave nivida strong competition would power like that.

3dfx's mistake, was manufacturing not only the chip, but the boards, cables, ect. They had to concentrate on selling the chip 6to manufaturers like elsa and people like that, they opened up way too many board manufacturing plants, and had no money to cover for it.

I would love for 3dfx to make a comeback, with new inverstors, new employees, new engineers, ect. I loved the damn company, and their very original features such as anti aliasing, developed by them, bit off by nvidia, is one of the most important features in a card today. I felt like my brother died when 3dfx went down. They where a good company, and they had real good plans for the future, just that they didnt get to carry it out in time, and bankruptcy came first.

The spelling is off, but you get the idea.

 

[Josep]

Matrox kicks major ass, except VERY exspensive, and depending on where you live, hard to find 'em

 

[Eddy]

matrox sucks ass for 3d performance. 2d is their specialty, as well as RT video.

 

[Slougi]

I don't believe it until I see it, at the moment of writing I can't remember the other company who according to they had the most revolutionizing graphic chip in the world. Bit I have heard news of Matrox coming out with a new card soon, it's should be based on either this circuit or the other unnamed card, which I believe is finnish - most likely BitBoys.

Actually their new card is done in house, and is a completely new design. No more G400 cores The only thing they might do is patent XBA or some part of it, like they did with EMBM a few years back. And Bitboys had their own card due out last year, but apparently the manufacturer that was supposed to make the cards went out of business. Thus they only have a few test boards of the chip. The same happened a few years back with Trident and Bitboys. They have had incredibely bad luck.

matrox sucks ass for 3d performance. 2d is their specialty, as well as RT video

Ah just wait a few months