In the beginning 3dfx was the king of the 3D accelerator market with its Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets...

Blistering speed in 3D and a multitude of multimedia features makes the 3500 an excellent card for video enthusiasts and gamers alike.

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There was once a time when 3dfx ruled the 3D accelerator market, but...

Even though the Voodoo3 3500 TV is an older card than most on test in this Labs, we have included it since it, along with the ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro,fills a niche in the graphics card market that caters to people looking for a low-cost TV and video capture card alongside reasonable 3D gaming performance.

There will be several iterations of the Voodoo4/5, each with a different number of VSA-100 chips, ranging from one to four running in SLI (Scan Line Interleave). The Voodoo5 5500 features two VSA-100 chips and has a total of 64Mb of 166MHz SDRAM, although both chips require their own texture memory, so some of the RAM is shared.

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Canopus first made its name providing top-notch 3Dfx cards. Realising the deadly competitiveness and pace of that market, however, Canopus has moved on and repositioned itself as a company specialising in video editing.

3D Power is a relative newcomer to the graphics scene, though many that comprise 3D Power are ex-3dfx veterans from the ill-fated companys European wing. In partnership with Korean board manufacturing company Absolute Multimedia, comes the genesis of the Morpheus range of graphics cards Made by Gamers, for Gamers, or so the slogan goes.

VideoLogic is a name few people would now instantly associate with graphics accelerators. In fact, its parent company, Imagination Technologies, was present at the birth of the PC 3D accelerator field in June 1996 with its PowerVR card.

A lot has happened since our last graphics card Labs back in September 1999. Back then the nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra was starting to give 3dfx a hard time, and the Matrox Millennium G400 MAX was showing

A potentially stunning card -- but don't buy one just yet.

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The graphics market is a cutthroat game, and we have seen many casualties recently. Not all of them have been fatal, like Matrox, which has recently backed out of the consumer race, or Rendition, whic

In many respects, this system is very similar to the one which was reviewed in last month's issue

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