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Diamond announces Viper V550

Diamond Multimedia Systems, a leader in interactive multimedia acceleration, now has announced the company's new, high-powered Viper V550 graphics accelerator.

Here is the latest August 1998 note from the PC gaming front: Diamond announces Viper V550.

Diamond Multimedia Systems, a leader in interactive multimedia acceleration, now has announced the company’s new, high-powered Viper V550 graphics accelerator. Designed for business users and consumers, Diamond’s new accelerator employs the latest advancements in PC graphics technology necessary for handling the next-generation of power-hungry business applications, 3D games and enriched Internet environments.

Available in both AGP and PCI retail versions, Diamond’s new Viper V550, powered by NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT(TM) 3D graphics controller, features advanced 128-bit processing power in a 16MB memory design for unprecedented 2D/3D acceleration, digital video playback and TV output.