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MSI's GeForce 3 Powered Starforce 822 ViVo Not Just a GF3...It May Be "The" GeForce 3! By, Marco Chiappetta November 8, 2001 NVIDIA's new Titanium line of cards and ATi's new Radeons have been commanding most of the spotlight these days. With the release of these "next generation" products, attention shifted focus,...
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The Guillemot Maxi Sound Muse Keep that coin in your pocket! By, Jeff Bouton - November 13, 2000 The Maxi Sound Muse is a low budget card designed for ??today?s price conscious multimedia user.? Naturally, we all want the latest and greatest in sound cards, but not everyone has the budget for the top of the line cards that are on the...
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January 12 A3D - The Old And The NEW - Vortex 2 vrs. Vortex 1 Diamonds Little Monster Sound MX300 For this little spotlight I would like to take a close look at how technology advances, specifically in the field of 3D sound. For me, and historically for a lot of folks, sound cards are sometimes an afterthought. As long...
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Today Brian Burke of 3dfx gave Hot Hardware an exclusive inside scoop on new drivers that will soon be released for the Voodoo3! We've got the goods here first! Take it away Brian! The week of July 19th, 3dfx will be releasing a new set of drivers for the Voodoo3. Besides the usual bug fixes, we have added some user control image...
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3dfx Selling Core Graphics Assets To nVidia Corp. One step closer to complete domination, nVidia moves to assimilate the competition NVIDIA To acquire 3dfx core graphics assets SANTA CLARA, CA - DECEMBER 15, 2000 - NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain graphics...
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The GeForce3 Ti 500 and nVidia's Fall Lineup...New Hardware & Software Enter the Detonator XPs and Titanium By - Marco Chiappetta Edited By: Dave Altavilla October 1, 2001 NVIDIA is at it again. Just when we were all getting used to the idea of a new chipset standard from the 3D graphics giant...
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The ATI Radeon Experience ATI's new 3D Graphics powerhouse may just be the new King of The Hill By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 7/17/00 A few months ago, ATI made a bold announcement that they wanted to dominate the high-end consumer 3D graphics card market. Although ATI is already the largest graphics board manufacturer in the...
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The ATI Interview - The Rage Fury MAXX! October 20, 1999 Subject: Hot Hardware Exclusive - Interview with ATI regarding Rage Fury MAXX Hi Folks, Thanks for taking time out of your busy days to chat with us. We'll keep this crisp and let you get back to creating the magic back in the design labs! We have heard some exciting things about your...
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The Leadtek WinFast 3D S320 II 4/30/99 Leadtek was absolutely the first OEM to release a Graphics Accelerator based on the NVIDIA TNT2 chip. We received a full Retail Release 32MB SGRAM Supported Card. This is a highly anticipated product as we all know, so I won't bore you with a long monologue. Let's get right to it! As I stated,...
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The SGI 1600SW Flat Panel LCD Finally, a Multi-Media and Gaming ready LCD By Dave Altavilla 8/3/01 Flat Panel technology is still far from perfect, at least in this Tech Journalist's eyes. Then again, so is CRT technology. I guess we're a bit spoiled here at HotHardware. However, let's face it, the display you look at on...
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The Siluro GF256 GTS 64MB DDR More highly "over-clockable" hardware from Abit By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 8/9/00 The GeForce 2 market is what one would call "saturated". There are more flavors and brands of nVidia product available than you can shake a stick at. A new entry into this over indulged...
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Taming The Beast A Look At The Hercules Terminator Beast Super Charged! Hercules Computer Technology Inc. is one of the oldest manufacturers of...
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The 3dfx/STB Voodoo3 3000 Hey... Do you see that? What synergy we have here! These colors look great on us! Hot Hardware and Voodoo3. Black and Orange, an unlikely combination but oh sooo pretty! :-) We were one of the lucky few sites that got first dibs on a the first retail run...
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The 3dfx Voodoo3-3000 PCI Leading Edge Technology For The Trailing Edge User As we all know with any business, you go where the market is. The old adage, "if you build it, they will come" works only in the movies. Not long ago the PC platform standardized on the next generation PC Graphics Bus Interface,...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Update! New Drivers, Benchmarks and Full Review Rating! By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 5/12/00 Welcome back folks! This is an update to our initial Voodoo5 PREview article on 4/24/00. We aren't going to spend a lot of time with flowery verbage here. You came here for one thing. You...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP An "In House" PREview and Test Of Alpha 2 Product By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 4/24/00 This product review needs no introduction. We have been waiting a long time for the next coming of Voodoo Graphics. In what seems like a deluge of market hype over next generation 3D Graphics...
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The 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 3D Graphics for a legacy system adds leading edge performance By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 8/4/00 These days technology moves so fast that there is almost as much of an available market opportunity supporting older platforms, as there is producing for the "bleeding edge" market segment. PCI is...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 Incarnate Up close and personal with 3dfx's next generation product By Dave "Davo" Altavilla and Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 4/4/00 We packed our gear... Digicam, Notebooks, Laptop, Breath Spray, Cheeze Wiz, Rolaids... all the stuff that a good journalist should come prepared with to any important...
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Sharp's Internet Viewcam - Size Matters... Whoever came up with the saying, "size doesn't matter" was living in a dream world. This is a family show here at Hot Hardware, so we won't get into the specifics of the saying's origin. :-) However, as with most things in life, size DOES matter especially when it comes to...
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The VisionTek XTasy Titanium Series Line-up Taking Graphics to the Next Level By - Jeff Bouton November 1, 2001 Just in time to compete with the long awaited new Radeon's from ATI, nVidia has release their latest version of the popular GeForce GPU's named "Titanium." By now, it is fairly obvious that when it comes to competition,...
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Dueling DVD New Video2000 Results From The Majors In Graphics The Online Hardware Review Media community has a solid focus on 3D Graphics performance and technology as a whole. This goes without saying. Too often the Digital Video Subsystem of a particular graphics card goes untested and evaluated. Perhaps this is because...
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The Cadillac of Voodoo3! The 3dfx Voodoo3-3500TV In every market, whether you are selling Cars, Tupper-Ware, or 3D Video Cards, there is always a place for the high end. These types of products have all the bells and whistles and are tweaked, buffed and tuned for ultimate performance. This review is about the "Cadillac" of Voodoo3...
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