Released in February of 1998, the Voodoo2 from 3dfx was an iconic moment for PC gaming - a discrete graphics card capable of delivering impressive 3D performance at a time when that was still a ...

About a week ago I asked for suggestions for building a low-end machine to tinker with. Well, I recently bought a dual Pentium 3 motherboard with two 500 MHz CPUs from someone, so now I'm looking for ...

Two years after launching its original Voodoo Graphics chipset, 3Dfx delivered its successor in 1998 as the Voodoo2 with not two, but three GPUs on the same card. What's more, two Voodoo2 cards could ...

Having a retro PC is awesome, because it lets you experience classic games as they were intended to be, on the original hardware. Maintaining one is a pain, though; beyond all the issues with using 25 ...

In a nutshell: Early video cards didn't afford much in the way of physical protection against mishandling or accidental damage incurred during storage. Should you happen to still have an old 3Dfx ...

I finally got my hands on two Creative Labs 12MB Voodoo2 cards and have them all hooked up and running under Windows NT4. My fps in Quake seems to be the same as it was with a single Voodoo2. Now, the ...

Sometimes it's easy to forget about where we came from in PC gaming, especially while we're gazing into our crystal balls for any glimpse of graphics cards future. But there's actually a lot that we ...

This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 354 in February 2021. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible ...

When 3D graphics controllers were emerging in the late 1990s, 3Dfx was experimenting with ways to scale up performance and accelerate 3D gameplay. One technology it developed was called scan-line ...