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Hardware

22 Jun
Hardware
Banshee Press Release

Banshee Press Release is the latest June 1998 update, with from the official press release, 3Dfx Interactive, Inc..

22 Jun
Hardware
Banshee Info

Banshee Info is the latest June 1998 update, with today 3Dfx officially announced its Voodoo Banshee, which fully integrate 2D and 3D graphics in a single, powerfull chip..

20 Jun
Hardware
Operation:3Dfx Downtime

Sander Pilon explains the reason for Operation:3Dfx downtime is because during an internal argument, Jeremy Allford decided to ask Scot Rubin (Allgames/Pseudo) to shut down the server.

19 Jun
Hardware
3Dfx Interactive Reaffirms Strong Market for 3D Gaming

3Dfx Interactive Reaffirms Strong Market for 3D Gaming is the latest June 1998 update, with 3Dfx Interactive, Inc..

10 Jun
Hardware
OGR Voodoo 2 Roundup

OGR Voodoo 2 Roundup is the latest June 1998 update, with oGR thoroughly tests and compares four leading 12MB cards in the first installment of their Voodoo 2 Roundup..

08 Jun
Hardware
3Dfx first to break 1000 in 3D Winbench 98

Despite the drivers not yet being fully optimized, the 3Dfx Interactive card scored 1,350 points in the dual board scanlined interleave configuration or, 1260 points with a single board, almost 400 points above its nearest competitor.

08 Jun
Hardware
Intel Introduces New Celeron Processor

Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel Celeron processor 300 MHz, the second member of that processor family designed to meet the core computing and affordability needs of the sub-$1,200 Basic PC market segment.

04 Jun
Hardware
3Dfx OpenGL Beta 2.1 Released

This beta version is the second public release of 3Dfx OpenGL, a 3-D graphics library based on OpenGLÒ Version 1.1. 3Dfx OpenGL is derived from OpenGL for Windows, source code licensed from Silicon Graphics.

03 Jun
Hardware
Sneak Peek At Banshee

Sneak Peek At Banshee is the latest June 1998 update, with bootNet has gotten a sneak peek at 3Dfx's Banshee..