a pal of mine was a big-time 3dfx fanboi (as was i, admittedly, when i had my vd3-3500). he's had a vd3-2k in his system for several years and went to upgrade. much to his chagrin, there was no 3dfx ...

That's a lot of info. I have a couple minutes, so you get the short history on major releases, some of the release dates I mention will be wrong, since this is off the top of my head. I won't touch ...

A look at the legacy of 3dfx and its Voodoo series of video cards. Insight into Oscar Barea’s VoodooX Project. What’s next on Barea’s development list. In the mid-1990s, the PC gaming industry was ...

It's now been 30 years since the first Voodoo card.

I thought my first-gen 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing when it came out, with its smooth action in GLQuake at 640 x 480, but this new hot rod shows just how much untapped potential was available in this ...

The story of the 3dfx Voodoo 3D is a classic case of being the right company with the right tech at the right time. 3dfx launched its revolutionary Voodoo Graphics chipset just as fully polygonal 3D ...

My PC gaming days started in the early 90s but they were super-amplified in the mid-to-late 90s with nostalgic releases from 3dfx in the form of the Voodoo family of graphics cards -- which ushered in ...

In brief: Oscar Barea, a 3Dfx enthusiast, is trying to make Voodoo cards reach a "new hardware level." Using VSA-100 chips collected through online auctions, Barea and his collaborators are still ...

Released in late June 2000, the Voodoo 5 5500 is now a prized item for hardware collectors, so finding one in a sealed box is extremely rare. Thankfully, such a diamond has recently surfaced on eBay, ...

Some names transport you back to the past, and this is certainly true of 3dfx. It is now two decades since the graphics card maker went bankrupt and was swallowed by NVIDIA. But now it seems that the ...

Timi has been writing about technology for over a decade, focusing on smartphones, computers, and anything that he finds interesting in the tech space. He started writing for XDA, covering all things ...

Owning a piece of history can be pretty expensive, even in the PC space. One example is the recently auctioned 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000 prototype graphics card, which has been sold for a whopping $15,000.