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/ Adam Richardson

3Dfx Voodoo3 Announced

The first members of the product family, which are expected to be available commercially in the second quarter of 1999, include the pin-compatible Voodoo3 2000 for the PC OEM market and the Voodoo3 3000 for the retail add-in-board market.

3Dfx Voodoo3 Announced is the story on November 16, 1998, and it is one of those late-1998 PC gaming updates that says exactly where the scene is right now. 3Dfx Interactive today announced its Voodoo3 product family, a range of integrated single chips that expand on the award-winning Voodoo2 and Voodoo Banshee architecture to deliver the world’s fastest 3D and 2D performance and support ultra high-definition displays. The first members of the product family, which are expected to be available commercially in the second quarter of 1999, include the pin-compatible Voodoo3 2000 for the PC OEM market and the Voodoo3 3000 for the retail add-in-board market.

For players keeping track of patches, demos, hardware drivers, online events, and retail releases, this is the sort of news that can change what gets installed tonight. Drivers and hardware updates are not glamorous, but when they fix a game or unlock a card you already paid for, they matter.