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In the good old days, you had to buy an extra 3D card to run games in pretty 3D mode. What was the first retail 3D addon card to go on sale and how much was it?
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In the good old days, you had to buy an extra 3D card to run games in pretty 3D mode. What was the first retail 3D addon card to go on sale and how much was it?
Answers in by noon!
vodoo by 3dfx
bout £345 ...
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3Dfx Voodoo 1 with a price of $229.95.
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What's being counted as a 3D card? as many early 3D cards were 2D chips with a few 3D functions added on...
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Originally Posted by Mr. Grapes
I would suggest Aria means the 3d only PCI retail cards of the late 90s, but I could be wrong.
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Hmm, my guess would be Video Toaster for the Amiga.
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People need to read the question more carefully:
"The Diamond Edge 3D was the first consumer 3D accelerator card, based on the NVIDIA NV1 chipset." from here
"Prices for Diamond's line of Edge 3D multimedia accelerators start at $249 - $299" from here
EDIT: since you're being picky and its not technically the first 3D addon card:
Diamond Monster 3D 3dfx Voodoo1 4MB PCI Retailing at approx $300.00
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a 3D addon card.. so something you have in addition to your existing 2D card... so we are looking in the voodoo area
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Diamond Edge 3D "First consumer 3D Accelerator card"
based on nvidia NV1
best price example i can find is $249 - $299
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