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3dfx Gamers has posted up an interview with Scott Sellers of 3dfx interactive.



OK, Lets talk about the Voodoo 5 6000! I see you've brought one with you; how final is that?

The board looks to be final.

We've gone through subsequent iterations of it along the way, and really it's a little bit later than we would have liked, but it's a complicated board 50Watts of power, 4 chips, 128Meg of RAM. The power supply circuitry itself is very complicated we use an external power supply which had to be sourced, and spec'ed out. So, everything was non-trivial about the project.

We are extremely happy with the performance, and as we've said all along, its going to be the most powerful, best performing high resolution accelerator out there and we continue to be confident about that.
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