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    Quantum 3D Alchemy

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hendra, Apr 16, 2008.

  1. hendra

    hendra Notebook Virtuoso

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    Has anyone seen one of those? Quantum 3D Alchemy with 16 to 32 VSA100 (Voodoo 5) chips? I want to see what a system with 32 chips look like and how it performs against current video card.
     
    hendra, Apr 16, 2008
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Google doesn't turn up anything on the Quantum 3D Alchemy, but here's a review for a Voodoo 5 6000 with 4 of the aforementioned VSA100 chips: http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/413. If you take the benchmark scores and multiply them all by 8 (best case scenario, 100 percent scaling per four cores), you still don't get anything close to the power of modern GPUs. It would be cool to see what it looks like though...

    K-TRON might know more. I think he's got a bunch of old 3dfx stuff lying around.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 16, 2008
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Sorry man, I dont have any of those. I have a few Voodoo 5 pci cards, but nothing called the quantum alchemy.
    Its got a pretty cool name in my opinion.
    As commander wolf mentioned, they are no where near as powerful as new cards, but 3dfx's SLI is surely much better than nVidia's SLI.
    The old Scan Link Interleave was a great invention by the company, which let you use multiple gpu's for video processing. Its much different than today's SLI, but its just so much cooler when you have a 3dfx sli system :D

    You can try finding some on ebay, but they are not going to be cheap, loads of people are trying to get holds on teh old voodoo cards.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 16, 2008
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    hendra Notebook Virtuoso

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    hendra, Apr 24, 2008
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