ITEMS TAGGED WITH VOODOO

VoodooX 3dfx 4900 Project Gets A Sleek Black Makeover And HDMI For Crispy Graphics

by Zak Killian - Wed, Apr 17, 2024

If you weren't there in the late 90s, it is very difficult to explain the particular cachet that "3dfx Voodoo" has among a certain generation of PC gaming enthusiast. 3dfx cards never had the best image quality, they rarely actually had... Read more...

Legendary 3dfx Voodoo 5 Gets Fresh Driver Update To Support Modern Displays

by Zak Killian - Wed, Jun 22, 2022

Do you have a DOS box? No, no, not the excellent DOS emulator software—I'm talking about a dedicated older PC for DOS software. Mostly popular among retro gamers, building a DOS box is a tricky task in 2022 as much of the necessary... Read more...

Microsoft Ventures Exec, Voodoo PC Founder Rahul Sood Leaves Microsoft To Start-Up Unikrn

by Ray Willington - Wed, Nov 05, 2014

Few names are as meaningful and recognizable in the gaming sector as Rahul Sood. From VoodooPC to HP to Razer and Microsoft, Sood has become a bit of an icon in each place that he has eventually wound up. Now, he's taking his talents from... Read more...

Rumors Fly of HP Axing Voodoo

by Michael Santo - Wed, Sep 24, 2008

It's a rumor that's flown around the block before: HP shutting down the VoodooPC label, which it purchased in 2006. In fact, we wrote earlier when the VoodooPC line was sort of sucked into the regular HP catalog. Even then things seemed to be getting a little iffy around the VoodooPC portion of HP's landscape. At the time,... Read more...

VoodooDNA Spliced Completely Into HP

by Daniel A. Begun - Wed, Jul 23, 2008

When it comes to high-end gaming rigs, few companies have been able to achieve the stellar reputation that VoodooPC had with its enthusiast desktops and laptops. VoodooPC had a penchant for building speedy systems with the latest high-quality components, and packaging it all together in sexy looking designs. It's no wonder that HP acquired... Read more...

Voodoo's Omen Portends $7K Gaming Rig

by Daniel A. Begun - Tue, Jul 08, 2008

There are high-end gaming rigs, and then there are high-end gaming rigs. Then there are those systems that are so high-end that they defy categorization. Leave it to boutique systems manufacturer Voodoo to give us the $7,000 Omen. By the way, $7,000 is the starting price for the system, depending on the configuration. Similar to Voodoo's,... Read more...

Voodoo Envy Set to Ship in August

by Daniel A. Begun - Tue, Jul 08, 2008

Remember the ultra-sexy, high-end Voodoo Envy laptop we reported about last month? Well, Voodoo has recently updated its Website to now include a rudimentary configurator for the Envy. Unlike traditional configurators (like you'd find on Dell's site), the Envy page currently features a matrix made up of three different types of users... Read more...

HP Envies Apple, Buys Voodoo, Makes Envy Laptop

by Gregory Sullivan - Tue, Jun 10, 2008

Back in 2006, Hewlett-Packard bought Voodoo, makers of exotic gaming rigs. That had people scratching their heads about what HP was going to make under their newly acquired nameplate. Apparently it wasn't just exotic gaming desktops they were after; it's the straightforward exotic lappie... Read more...

VoodooPC Smashes Records with Next-Gen Notebook

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jul 18, 2007

VoodooPC Smashes Industry Records with Next-Gen Notebook PC 17-inch laptop sets new standard for performance notebooks (CALGARY, Canada) – Wednesday, July 18, 2007 – VoodooPC, the world’s leading architect of... Read more...

HP Buys Voodoo PC?!?!

by Sean Pelletier - Thu, Sep 28, 2006

In what could be one of the most surprising events in the industry the last few years, we are hearing news from the gang at Gizmodo that none other than HP has purchased Voodoo PC. Much like the scenario where Dell bought Alienware, HP will leverage the IP and customer base from the boutique PC vendor Voodoo PC. Unfortunately,... Read more...

Voodoo PC OMEN a121x CrossFire Extreme Gamer PC

by Dave Altavilla - Wed, Apr 26, 2006

Good Evening All! Tonight we seriously have a HOT one for ya. Voodoo PC's new OMEN CrossFire is on the test bench and we're poppin' the hood down on Sunset Strip for all to see. 2.95GHz of Athlon 64 power, coupled with a pair of Radeon X1900 XTs, expertly... Read more...

Voodoo PC OMEN a121x CrossFire Extreme Gamer PC

by Dave Altavilla - Wed, Apr 26, 2006

It almost goes without saying that we'd all love to have enough disposable income to be able to afford the best-of-the-best, top-shelf, ultra-high-end, no compromise products, whether it be a 36 foot Chris Craft Corsair with 840hp of Mercruiser under its decks (in the aft section, by... Read more...

Voodoo ENVY u:909 SLI Notebook

by Sean Pelletier - Tue, Mar 14, 2006

Voodoo has just launched a product page for the company's new flagship gaming notebook. The ENVY u:909 features two GeForce Go 7800 GTX GPU's in SLI, an AMD Turion ML/MT CPU, nForce4 SLI chipset, 19" WSXGA+ 1680x1050 LCD, and 8 channel surround complete with four embedded speakers and a subwoofer. Granted, this system will be anything... Read more...

VoodooPC Making iPod-Killer?

by Sean Pelletier - Thu, Nov 17, 2005

VoodooPC's President and CTO Rahul Sood has made some very interesting comments in one of his latest blog entries. After illustrating the impact the iPod has made upon Apple's own products and the Consumer Electronics industry in general, he wraps up with some very intriguing comments that seem to indicate a new product coming from VoodooPC... Read more...