3dfx Voodoo5 6000 - a frightening fact...

[Technoid]

And what happens if the powercord to the card (not PC) gets janked out???

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[This message has been edited by Technoid (edited 19 March 2000).]

[The Rock]

You wanna talk power? Where I work, we have twin 747 turbine engines that kick in if the power goes out. The whole country could lose power and we'd still be running as long as we have fuel.

The Rock

[Wombat]

Damn, where do you work?

[The Rock]

Wombat:

RCMP. Our mainframe NEVER goes down unless we put it down.

The Rock

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

We have a HUGE box of candles
jim

[merchant2112]

Dam the rock, your work beets my work, we only have a cat v16 generator.

Why dose that picture make me think of those joke card pic/ ads that we had gone a few months back. Almost makes me wonder if 3dfx engineers are on crack or something.

Noel


[This message has been edited by merchant2112 (edited 20 March 2000).]

[alessandro]

For me the real threat is not 3dfx but Nvidia.
The 3dfx-empire is dead.......
So we should only compare the G800 with the new G-Farce 2.... not cards that basically consist of 4 Voodoo2 chips!!!!!!!!1 ;P (sarcasm)

[Alec]

Come on, guys, that card is as ugly as SCARY!!! And it comes with a black sidekick!

My god, what can my puny G200 do against that monster!!???

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[noackjr]

Actually, the worst part of the whole deal from what I see is that you can't lock the power connector into the card. Why do you think they put 2 little screws on almost every connector out there? It would be especially important here - I can see myself going to plug my speakers into my sound card and mistakenly pulling the cord out. Oh well, not like I'm gonna get one anyway...

Jon

[Ali]

I think its a good idea. If having an external power supply is going to fix lots of incompatability problems then how can that be bad?

Also, Ive never had a cable 'fall' out of the back of my computer. What do you guys do? use you tower cases as foot rests?

Anyway, I would love a Matrox external power supply. I would have it sitting next to my UPS in pride of place. At least nobody would think I was running a S3 or other crap card.

Actually, I would love an external video card! Just have a plug for the AGP slot, then have your vid card sit in a box behind your monitor. With MATROX written all over it. That would also solve the heat problem, and having one of those little blue break out boxes for the Marvel owners.

Ali

[Agent31]

fork it, why not just have an external computer! no housing, just a Socket Block™ into which every single component plugs in, these Socket Blocks can be daisy chained together. The links between them would be fibre optic of course to eliminate any bandwidth constraints, a power source running along side it in the same cable, and there's no reason, that a common interface couldn't be applied to every single component.

The Socket Block would act like a network switch, the data paths would never be used concurrently, thus providing maximum bandwidth to each component. (Unless of course somebody else can come up with a good reason to do otherwise?)

Buy a new hard drive, just plug it in anywhere, no limits. Want to take it over to a mates place? unplug it and take it with you.

What do you people think? Has a product idea been born?