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gabrielc@eiger.torolab.ibm.com (Gabriel Chang) wrote:

>Well, SLI means that the two cards alternate rendering scan lines.  That's still
>possible if they make the second card a daughtercard.  You obviously wouldn't be
>able to buy two identical cards and hook em up that way.

I think the daughtercard approach is a good possibility.   With the V3
requiring far fewer chips, there is now space on the board for a
daughtercard adapter. 

But the thing that strikes me is that I think the V3 is being
positioned as 3Dfx's low to mid-range product.   Until very recently,
it had been referred to as the Banshee2.    The dumb-asses in
marketing decided to call it Voodoo3 for brand recognition but we all
know it as the successor to the Banshee, 3Dfx's OEM part.

So if it is not their high end product, then I'm not sure they would
think it worth the additional expense (a port for a daughtercard isn't
exactly cheap).    Maybe it will be available on some 3000's.

P.S.  I call the marketing dept dumb-asses because they deserve the
name.   So far they have caused 3Dfx nothing but trouble: the sticker
fiasco, the two apes which signified nothing new, and now mistakenly
believing that we would not know the difference between a Banshee2 and
a Voodoo3.    If 3Dfx had announced it as a Banshee2 at Comdex I don't
think very many people would have complained about lack of 32-bit
support etc, etc.   Everyone was already expecting a multitexture
version of Banshee so it would not have caused such an uproar if they
had left the name alone.   Changing the name, changed people's
expectations and that only caused their announcement to be received
negatively.