I guess the audience will largerly overlap with that of the freedom phone then...
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3dfx making a comeback, 4th GPU player in the market?
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I guess the audience will largerly overlap with that of the freedom phone then...
Soldato
no it doesnt PCI slots were dropped from motherboards ages ago. Its complete rubbish. The big Thursday announcement was complete BS. If it was a Voodoo 6 on a PCIE bus that had speeds of around a 3060/3070 then it would be interesting but its all fake fake fake.
The predicted growth slide just shows you its complete fake. 900,000 customers by Q4 21/Q1 22 so if their products are still in development how are they going to sell 900,000 items by end of this year ?
also their email address. @arcticmail.com
note the expiry date
Looks like its some media person doing a project.
FAKE FAKE FAKE
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Soldato
someone bored working from home.
Aye, had a Voodoo (1) paired with an ATi Rage 128, then later a Voodoo Banshee, so 3dfx were my first experience of an actual gaming card. If they do come back to market, I hope they're good because I sort of want one on nostalgia grounds!
Also, now I need to figure out how to run Mechwarrior 2 again
Soldato
Only thing I can think of 24th August is anniversary of 3DFX but its 27 years. Maybe the person miscalculated and thought it was 25 !
With the mistakes in some of these photoshops, I'm not surprised. But still, isn't there something better to do than troll?
Soldato
They didnt actually do the images they nicked them off a guy from Hungary who created them or altered them himself from 2018 I think or it might have been 2015. I was looking at the originals yesterday its on a forum you can find if you search. Apparently the pictures of box art that were put up and quickly got took down was because the actual person who took the picture told the 3dfx twitter guy to take them down.
If its genuine why would someone pinch the pictures from somewhere else ?
If its genuine why would someone pinch the pictures from somewhere else ?
Its not complete rubbish as I expect the main people who would be interested in buying a V6000 are those that are into retro gaming and retro gaming box's tend to have PCI slots. As I said before I fully expect it to be fake/trolling but it is more feasible then most people think. If someone really wanted to bring a V6000 to market in a short time frame then it is doable and if they did that PCI would be the way to go. The hard bits like bios, drivers, design of the VSA chips and manufacture of the VSA chips are already done and good to go.
As for 900k if this wasn't fake that that's not 900k GPU's but all the other cheap 3DFX Chinese mass produced rebranded rubbish. Generic Bluetooth speaker with 3DFX sticker on for example. There is a tiny chance this is real and they are armatures overestimating 3DFX Nostalgia. This is far more likely to be fake but it could be a bunch of armature trying to do it for real.
Soldato
The V6000 was suggested by nostalgia there is nothing tangible about it. Any mass produced ones would be known about by now its the PCB's thats the issue not the components according to the guy who made the PCB said he had a lot of issues making it and there are one or two components on there were difficult to source.
There is no cheap 3DFX chinese mass produced rebranded rubbish I never said 900,000 GPU's either it doesnt exist.
Yep it is complete rubbish and fake. The only truth in it is threads like this discussing it these are far more real than the fake 3dfx company. Even the email address is fake. It just seems the person behind it is actually achieving their goals - a media exercise probably towards someones degree or Uni course.
It would be fairly easy to bridge it to PCIe probably.
If true they would probably make more money just re-releasing their old video cards, those things go for a small fortune on Ebay as they're probably the best DOS-Windows 98 era cards available. Lets face they're never going to be able to compete with NVidia or AMD.
Wouldn't shock me if they splashed a load of marketing around for a couple of months, and then said "actually we can't make the graphics card after all due to patents, but don't worry because we've got a whole range of exciting products to launch", and it's just another brand name to be slapped on some crappy knock-off bluetooth speakers and cheapo Android phones.
If that works I swear I'm going to take a flight to Canada and talk Matrox into getting back to make consumer products, it will be 1997 again!
You have to admit, this would work better for trolling:
Soldato
Looks like the 3DFX Interactive twitter account has been deleted ??!!
So yep, fake.
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So yep, fake.
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Looks like the 3DFX Interactive twitter account has been deleted ??!!
So yep, fake.
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I feel bad for people who think social media is trusted source of info
Soldato
I dont. People can be stupid.
I feel sorry for people who cant live without social media. They are sad. Never had it when I were young............ 
I dont. People can be stupid.
true, true