# Damn you 3Dfx! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829 "2000-12-16T00:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/1 "2000-12-16T00:41:20Z")
Why in the hell did the EOs of 3Dfx run it into the ground??? You bastards had some of the most kick-ass video boards for a PC, went public, did some of the most amazingly bad business moves ever and lost your shirt. I hope the executives get put in jail for being such idiots. I bet I will be getting lots of driver updated for my V5500AGP now, won’t I?? You dickheads! Pisses me off is more than likely the executives that ran it into the ground will probably end up OK, while the workers a trying desperately to find a job. Merry F’n Christmas. Whew. I am glad I got that off my chest. Fuckheads. Oops! There we go. Done now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/2 "2000-12-16T07:58:39Z")
3dfx is at $1.781?? Damn. I want to buy some stock. Let me get into my penny coffee can. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/3 "2000-12-16T08:30:16Z")
Laughing as he pats his Herc GeForce II Ultra… mwuahahahahahahahah! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/4 "2000-12-16T08:31:29Z")
You bought a Voodoo 5? To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi… “Who’s the more foolish… the fool, or the fool who buys his product?” ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/5 "2000-12-16T16:49:39Z")
I have a GF2 as well in my other machine. I really prefer my V5 over it. Not as fast in some games, but it kicks in sims and the image quality is amazing. Don’t knock it, brother, it is a kick ass card. It just looks like it is dying before its time. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/6 "2000-12-16T19:41:44Z")
What is going on with them then, I’m behind the times, link would be nice. I konw that someone screwed up on compatability with AGP on P IV boards but no more than that. IIRC didn’t Diamond screw up a few years back when they had some of the best graphics cards around ? Looks like the king is dead, long live the king. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/7 "2000-12-16T20:08:17Z")
Nvidia bought out their graphics technology, name, etc. They are not supporting owners of 3Dfx equipment at all. Operations at 3Dfx are to cease within a month or two. It’s dead, Jim. ---
**Author:** ![nowalls99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nowalls99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nowalls99)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/8 "2000-12-18T05:27:31Z")
3dFx is DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING. NVidia has made 3dFx look really bad recently, much like AMD has done to Intel. Bad business moves or not, without competition of NVidia’s caliber, 3dFx would still be alive and kicking, because they would be the only thing available. It’s the reason that Microsoft is so quick to extinguish any possible source of competition. Without any frame of reference, shit looks like gold. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-3dfx/45829/9 "2000-12-18T07:49:37Z")
3DFX has been outdated since the TNT2 cards came out, it was only a matter of time.