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    Voodoo PC Brand Is Basically Dead

    The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics

    Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards

    HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt

    Voodoo-Designed HP Firebird 803 Is Tiny, Still Has Space for Too Many Lights

    Voodoo Envy 133 Review (Verdict: Plenty Thin, Plenty Pricey)

    Is HP Shutting Down VoodooPC?

    Intel Opens Door for Army of MacBook Air Clones

    SplashTop Instant-On Linux OS Gets Hacked to Do More Tricks

    Voodoo Envy Impressions Roll In
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Voodoo PC Brand Is Basically Dead
    I'm conflicted. On the one hand I'm sad that we won't be seeing any more of the hotness that was the last Omen.

    On the other hand I'm glad I don't have to worry about competing with them anymore.
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    09/17/09

    In reply to Voodoo PC Brand Is Basically Dead
    I was shopping for a new laptop to play WoW on, and was working from a list of possible vendors. Then, by chance I met an old Troll shaman in the game, and he warned me. "Stay away from the voodoo!"

    So, I bought the macbook pro instead.
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    09/17/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: you'd trust a troll?
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    09/17/09

    @sdimacu: Would you trust voodoo to not be harmful in the long run?
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    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    It all started to go wrong when certain programs required a VGA card to be on a VESA bus...


    Then you had to have the right proprietary mix and match of parts to play games you wanted until... about DirectX 5 since the earlier ones were kinda brutal and crash-prone.


    This often meant a Sound Blaster sound card and a 3dfx video card, otherwise your games like MechWarrior 2, Tomb Raider, or Carmageddon wouldn't be 3D accelerated at all, and you couldn't guarantee you'd have sound effects.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    When will we have sentient AI chips for our PCs?
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    Image of EVEs_Mako EVEs_Mako
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    I cry out for my old Voodoo! VOODOO!


    Good times.....good times.

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    05/19/09

    @EVEs_Mako: Yeah, what happened to 3dfx? (and Matrox and S3 for that matter).
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    I remember every one of those cards. Clearly the Voodoo revolutionized 3D acceleration.


    Now, let's talk about sound cards. Anyone remember the AdLib synthesizer on a card?

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    05/19/09

    @FrankenPC: I remember that, and Roland-something or other. But really, Soundblaster was the one that made the most difference. It let the computer play actual sound clips, not just synthesized sounds. Pew pew pew!
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    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    Haha, the funny thing is that I actually use an S3 Virge card at work. Works with old linuxes out of the box! :D
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    05/19/09

    @Inception: What? Does your computer have a "turbo" button too?
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    01/06/09

    In reply to Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards
    i got its big Brother the Blackbird 002. Its the best computer i have ever owned so i wonder how a smaller version of it will do...
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    01/06/09

    @ZetaCrossfire: do you happen to know if you can X86 OSX the big brother 002 that you speak of?
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    01/06/09

    @imTheKing: Just about any intel box will run OS X. I'm not sure if you can equip this thing with an EFI-fixit dongle, but if you can, then definitely yes.
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    01/06/09

    In reply to Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards
    This is not your home brew liquid cooling guys. The tubes are the highest quality, they're very rigid, and it's sealed. It's designed to last over 7 years without being refilled. It doesn't leak - ever. It would never pass HP Engineering as a volume PC otherwise.. Thus the reason it took us so long to launch it.
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    01/06/09

    @Rahul Sood: I've had a few "sealed" liquid cooling systems over the years and ing the end they all suck.


    Even the best of liquid cooling systems will lose some coolant due to evaporation, especially if your rig is a gaming powerhouse that runs hotter than the sun's core. If it's sealed you're just screwing yourself down th eline because you'll never be able to replenish that liquid coolant. A 20% decrease in coolant will render it less useful than the crappiest air-cooling solutions. Super-rigid hoses also mean good luck to you if you ever want to swap out hardware in the future.


    Well designed air cooling with case airflow management beats liquid cooling every time in terms of cost, reliability and lack of danger to your hardware. Liquid cooling still can't bring your hardware below room temperature, and even the very best of them needs good-sized fans to pull heat from the radiator.


    It's a novelty, nothing more, nothing less. I replaced my last liquid cooling set-up with a $60 fan with 6 heat pipes and a copper block and the results were lower CPU temps and far less noise and more space in my case.

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    01/06/09

    In reply to Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards
    That tubing looks like crap. Not only does flex hosing slow flow, it also degrades quicker. Isn't a leak a bad thing?
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    01/06/09

    @Max_Lux: Only if it happens before the warranty expires. ;)
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    01/06/09

    In reply to Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards
    omg from the front it looks like a va-jay-jay!
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    01/06/09

    @Mark Simpson: Happy 8th Birthday Mark. Now go to bed... its way past your bed time.
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    01/06/09

    @imTheKing: Cock-in-your-ass types like yourself may only come out to troll at night, but the rest of us have a sense of humor at these late hours. Kindly continue &&&&ing yourself for the rest of your useless life.
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    01/06/09

    @Mark Simpson: Don't worry about him, he doesn't appreciate anyone's humor but his own, and no one appreciates his humor but him...


    Ergo;


    He is a pointless conundrum of inanity.

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    01/06/09

    @Mark Simpson: I'll bet you tend to your little green patch on Facebook every day.
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    01/06/09

    In reply to Gallery: Check Out the HP Firebird 803's Liquid-cooled Innards
    Looks a Lil dated to me..
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    01/06/09

    @feezy23: I dunno about you, but this, to me, is one of the few truly attractive desktops out there.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    What is that big black block to the let side? A powersupply? That thing is the size of an apple mini. While the functionality of the second screen is dubious, the design is cleary out of whack. It reminds me of the first Chevy Lumina minivan: vast amounts of weirdly proportioned unused space, cheap looking and shiny shiny.
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    01/02/09

    @flamingmenudo: Voodoo has built some extra ports and peripheral functions into power supplies before, so it may just be that.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    Wait, wait, wait. Hold on here. Apply brakes.


    What's the use of a tiny screen underneath your big screen? I don't get this. If it were on the cover of your laptop so that you could browse your contacts, I could understand that. If it was on the touchpad as a fun little "oh look my fingers make ripples like as if I was touching water" add-on, that would be okay. If it was a touchscreen with customizable shortcuts and such, that's cool too. But in it's current state, it just looks like added expense and wasted real-estate and no added functionality for the sake of saying "we have two screens!!!"


    I guess it'll probably end up as a minor screen with system information and a digital clock display. This seems like a step backward in design and function in order to step forward in marketing and sillyness.

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    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    More companies need to look to the wisdom of Dr. Ian Malcolm when coming up with some of these cockamamie designs.


    It seems to me that HP was so busy figuring out if they could put a secondary 800x480 screen of only limited use in that they never stop to think if they should.

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    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: Oh cheers! You totally outdid my comment by using one of my favorite characters!


    Win.

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    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: I dont think you give our scientists the respect they deserve for what they have accomplished here.
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    01/02/09

    @sqeakytoy of the apocalypse:

    The lack of humility before a crowded laptop market that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.


    I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that HP and VooDoo are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.


    They read what other modders like Ben Heck and Art Lebedev had done and you took the next step. HP and VooDoo didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.


    They stood on the shoulders of modders to accomplish something as fast as they could and before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic hulking behemoth of a "laptop", and now -


    They're selling it! They want to sell it!

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    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: Haven't seen the movie in a while, but I think you're missing a lot of "uuhs" and stutters in there.
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