data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/3dfx-voodoo-modded-with-12-mb-of-ram-and-two-texture-mappers-reveals-how-revolutionary-gpu-was-way-ahead-of-its-time” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/3dfx-voodoo-modded-with-12-mb-of-ram-and-two-texture-mappers-reveals-how-revolutionary-gpu-was-way-ahead-of-its-time”>The 3Dfx Voodoo 2 and the Nvidia Riva TNT were the pinnacles of the early era of 3D graphics. Both were released in 1998, and while I owned the latter, the Voodoo 2 was the faster of the two, despite the inconvenience of requiring an existing 2D graphics card. The Voodoo 2 is naturally memorable, and it’s a regular presence in retro PC builds. As the YouTube channel Bits und Bolts (Bits) data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZlt9Dl43I” data-url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZlt9Dl43I” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>found out, the cards’ capacitors can and will fail in time due to the rarely discussed pyroelectric effect.
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