The voodoo5 5500 has a 4pin molex connector for plugging into your PC's power supply, AGP cant supply enough power for 2 VSA-100 chips+64 meg 'o Ram.
The V5-6000 needs 60w of power and 3DFX can't Guarantee your 'puters power supply , so they bundle one which will work with their cards, no 'My V5-6000 keeps crashing my PC' stories when people with 230w power supplies try 'em.
Does make them a bit pricey though, and talk about an ineligant solution, both NVidia and ATI ( and possibly PowerVR-3, bit boys...OK maybee not them..) have much better solutions.
How are you USA guys going to cope with PAL? The BBC et al could release on region 0 but they'd have to do this in NTSC which might limit their UK sales,as far as I know USA players ( and TV's ) wont cope with a pal signal,chiped or not. We in the UK are 'luck' that most kit is made NTSC and pal is bolted on ( some playes output PAL,PAL60 and pure NTSC), although some older/cheaper TVs wont cope. As to region codeing as far as I can tell its failed completeley as everyone I knwo in th UK cn import and play what they want 9 with the internet its never been esier for me to get movies from the states). The studios still make their bucks, I still watch movies at the cinema (i.e. I got Galaxy quest from the USA the same week it opend in the UK and still went to the cinema to watch it).
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Where proposing to use nano-technology to cool Processors down? Wouldnt it be better to use the nano-tech to MAKE the processors?
They even change their price depending on which browser etc you use... Have a look at this
The voodoo5 5500 has a 4pin molex connector for plugging into your PC's power supply, AGP cant supply enough power for 2 VSA-100 chips+64 meg 'o Ram. The V5-6000 needs 60w of power and 3DFX can't Guarantee your 'puters power supply , so they bundle one which will work with their cards, no 'My V5-6000 keeps crashing my PC' stories when people with 230w power supplies try 'em. Does make them a bit pricey though, and talk about an ineligant solution, both NVidia and ATI ( and possibly PowerVR-3, bit boys...OK maybee not them..) have much better solutions.
How about *Intel WAS inside*?
How are you USA guys going to cope with PAL? The BBC et al could release on region 0 but they'd have to do this in NTSC which might limit their UK sales,as far as I know USA players ( and TV's ) wont cope with a pal signal,chiped or not. We in the UK are 'luck' that most kit is made NTSC and pal is bolted on ( some playes output PAL,PAL60 and pure NTSC), although some older/cheaper TVs wont cope. As to region codeing as far as I can tell its failed completeley as everyone I knwo in th UK cn import and play what they want 9 with the internet its never been esier for me to get movies from the states). The studios still make their bucks, I still watch movies at the cinema (i.e. I got Galaxy quest from the USA the same week it opend in the UK and still went to the cinema to watch it).