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Latest Rampage rumors?

lol, i was thinking rampage was a new kind of RAM that i hadent heard of, didnt know this was about video cards
 
I'm gonna start a rumor right now: It takes up two slots and can make toast. It features 3dfx's proprietary new "26 bit" color which they claim increases speed with no impact on visual quality when combined with their special "VBlur" feature. The market will say "same old same old" and "too little too late" and "way too expensive" and 3dfx will file for bankrupcy and an obscure Taiwanese graphics company will buy most of their assests for a few million dollars. Creditors will end up with twenty cents on the dollar, common shareholders half a cent. Nvidia will immediately increases prices twenty percent.
 
Under communism there is little incentive to do anything other than a sloppy half-assed job and consumers will take what they can get. Maybe 3dfx should move to Cuba. 😛
 
Actually Rambus is a wholely owned subsidiary of the Cuban government; it is pay back time for our embargo.😛
 
lol. nice replies there.

I would tend to agree with some of the sentiments posted here before me. 3dfx is just now getting out cards that can compete with GF DDR (lower end V4 and V5) and a card that costs much more than a GF2 yet still doesnt offer hardware T/L. Another reason I now am wary of 3dfx is because Nvidia just produces the reference designs and then different companies make them. It promotes competition, new designs, and price competition.

That in the end is the real dealbreaker for me. The fact that I have a wider range of price/performance options than 3dfx's 2-3 products in each line and the fact that prices on Nvidia products drop more rapidly due to competitoon and the ultra fast Nvidia product cycles.
Of course, I write all this from a computer using a V3 3000 since at the time (8 months or more ago) TNT2's were not exactly known for being friendly on AMD computers. Since then their drivers and hardware support of AMD has been much improved and I am pretty sure my next video card will be some form of GeForce (ddr, mx, or gf2).
 
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