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mindwreck

mindwreck

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Can't these video card companies just stay dead?
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next thing you know number 9 will be back...
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lol still remember the days when my #9 s3 virge card kicked a$$
 
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Ferocious

Diamond Member
Feb 16, 2000
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bleh

I remember I always had to goto Aureal's site to get reference drivers for my sound card.

Diamond never updated anything.
 
Deeko

Deeko

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Jun 16, 2000
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Diamond is the shizzle. I had a Viper 330 and a Viper 770 ultra. Kickass cards. Their Monster's were unbeatable too.
 
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MichaelZ

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lol still remember the days when my #9 s3 virge card kicked a$$
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S3 kicked ass, will consider trying them again should they produce some good hardware in the near future.

 
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MrPabulum

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My first 3d card was the Viper V330. Yeh, I know the Riva 128 didn't have the best IQ, but MotoGP still looked great, even Quake II was nice (and that took some efforts to get going). All on a P200MMX. But I'm waxing nostalgic. ;)
 
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oldfart

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Dec 2, 1999
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My 1st 3D card was also Diamond. The Stealth II S220 based on the Rendition Verite 2100. Rendition had the best IQ in that time period. I also had a pair of Monster 3DII Voodoo 2 12 meg in SLI. And a Diamond MX300 Aureal Vortex 2 sound card that now lives in in one of the kids PC's.
 
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rbV5

Lifer
Dec 10, 2000
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My first Opengl card was a Diamond FireGL1000 PCI, still use it today for troubleshooting.
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Can't these video card companies just stay dead?
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next thing you know number 9 will be back...
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Well, it is Halloween soon. :)

Yeah, Number 9 will be back. They'll be called Number 10, right? :p
 
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Tab

Lifer
Sep 15, 2002
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Hope they release some benchmarks soon before the XT's are on the shelves :p
 
Thor86

Thor86

Diamond Member
May 3, 2001
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I remember running I-76 for the first time on my Monster3D Voodoo 1, 8 meg card, video passed through with my Matrox Millenium 4 meg, 2d card. Kicked ass at the time. :)
 
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reever

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Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
lol still remember the days when my #9 s3 virge card kicked a$$
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S3 kicked ass, will consider trying them again should they produce some good hardware in the near future.
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If only they can stop getting pounded into submission whenever they try to re-enter or create a competitive product
 
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Matt84

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May 21, 2003
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I bought my Diamond Monster 3D PCI (first gen 3Dfx) around 1997 and it is still running strong today in my P4 based PC for Glide game duties. A 6+ year old video card in my current computer, probably the oldest piece of hardware in my rig. Works sweet along side my Ti4600
 
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Slickone

Diamond Member
Dec 31, 1999
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Didn't Diamond MM become Rio? Or was Diamond 'Multimedia' a different division?

My first Diamond was the Stealth 3D, before any of the 3DFx cards. Known as 3D Decelerators, they, along with the other 1st gen 3D card brands at the time, slowed 3D games down. I remember playing a 3D space game (what was it? Descent?) that had to be running at just a few frames per second.

I've still got an MX300 in the closet, but have been hesitant about using it again. Do they have XP drivers for it? Also I've been thinking of using it along with an Audigy 2 in my PC, for my older games. Anyone done this?
 
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Lonyo

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Aug 10, 2002
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Originally posted by: Slickone
Didn't Diamond MM become Rio? Or was Diamond 'Multimedia' a different division?

My first Diamond was the Stealth 3D, before any of the 3DFx cards. Known as 3D Decelerators, they, along with the other 1st gen 3D card brands at the time, slowed 3D games down. I remember playing a 3D space game (what was it? Descent?) that had to be running at just a few frames per second.

I've still got an MX300 in the closet, but have been hesitant about using it again. Do they have XP drivers for it? Also I've been thinking of using it along with an Audigy 2 in my PC, for my older games. Anyone done this?
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I think different parts of Diamond MM went to different areas.

The people who are using the Diamond name for graphics cards only bought the graphics cards bit of Diamond, so they don't do sound card/modems etc.
The MX300 will not be supported by Diamond MM, because they didn't buy that part of the original company.
 
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Slickone

Diamond Member
Dec 31, 1999
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Originally posted by: Lonyo

The MX300 will not be supported by Diamond MM, because they didn't buy that part of the original company.
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I know, I meant do they (drivers) exist. Seems I remember people using them in XP somehow.
 
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Apathetic

Platinum Member
Dec 23, 2002
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Originally posted by: Deeko
Diamond is the shizzle. I had a Viper 330 and a Viper 770 ultra. Kickass cards. Their Monster's were unbeatable too.
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I had the same cards. They were great.

Dave
 
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