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They also had the most recognizable unified box art style from all HW makers[1]. When you saw those eyes staring into your soul off the shelves, you knew it was a 3dfx GPU. They also had the best ads. [2] HW vendors today don't have the balls anymore to use designs like that, it's all flat sterile corporate nonsense.

[1] https://www.ixbt.com/img/r30/00/02/08/90/boxes.jpg

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/41r1wj/3dfx_w...



Unless I'm mistaken, those cards were all produced by 3dfx after their acquisition of STB. Regardless, that box art blew my 14 year old mind back in the day.


HW vendors today don't have the balls anymore to use designs like that, it's all flat sterile corporate nonsense.

Not all of them...

https://www.techpowerup.com/333599/yeston-launches-radeon-rx...

https://minixpc.com/products/maxsun-graphics-cards-geforce-r...


That's something I haven't seen in awhile! I remember as a kid staring at those in the store, not being able to afford them.


I sold my used 3DFX Voodoo 5500 with original box in 2015 for about 290EUR. It is probably in a collector's shelf now.


I think mine went into a computer that we donated to a school, or something. Around 2002 or 2003, my dad and I put together a bunch of working systems out of spare parts and donated them.

Mine was the PCI version of the card. Crazy looking on Ebay how much even the bare card goes for now, let alone when someone has the full boxed set.


>I sold my used 3DFX Voodoo 5500 with original box in 2015 for about 290EUR.

Bruh. That's like selling your bitcoins in 2009 for two pizzas.


I wiped my drive a few times before realizing dropbox didn't back my wallet up. I shrugged it off losing 30 bitcoins worth maybe at best 3 cents each at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.




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