Someone I knew had two 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI. I couldn’t believe anyone could shell out that much. My build was a single 8MB Voodoo2, which was already mind-blowing, especially since I never had 3D acceleration before that.
Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Someone I knew had two 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI. I couldn’t believe anyone could shell out that much. My build was a single 8MB Voodoo2, which was already mind-blowing, especially since I never had 3D acceleration before that.
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Voodoo2 12mb was released at $299 USD, thats about $594.29 today, so would only be like $1200 for SLI, not bad 😅
Although this review from the time says SLI only gave around 1fps more in a quake 2 benchmark: www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1998?amount=29…
bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.