[H]ardNews 6th Edition

3DFX Story, Part II:

Sudhian has posted up part two of their 3DFX retrospective titled “A Fallen Titans Final Glory”. Some really good nostalgia stuff in this write up, but today’s installment holds a very nice treat, some hi-res Voodoo5-6000 pictures and benchmarks as well.

Looking at our assembled benchmarks, there's no doubt that the Voodoo5 6000 packed one mother of a punch, offering frame rates 30-50% higher than the GeForce2 GTS in most benchmarks and competing well against the Ultra and GeForce3. Yet when you consider the mammoth amount of RAM the V5 6K needed to compete at this level (plus the huge amount of PCB real estate those four GPU's occupied), the card begins to look like less of a deal.

[H]ardware Workshop @ QuakeCon:

We got all the particulars down finally and we will be serving up the [H]ardware Workshop at QuakeCon this year. It looks as though we will have over 30,000 square feet to work with and seating for over 1000. The [H]Worshop will take place on Saturday, August, 16 at 1PM and will be at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Downtown Dallas. There is NO CHARGE for this event but registration is required. Anand of AnandTech fame will be joining us as well!! We are rounding up prizes for sponsors currently.

id Software has also signed off on RatPadzGS for this year and is allowing us to supply a FREE RatpadzGS to every person bringing a machine into the BYOC. The estimated BYOC count for this year is over 2000 folks!!!

So all in all, even if you cannot get into the BYOC, as it is booked, we would love to have you come down for our workshop. There will of course be vendor areas and plenty of other stuff going on that is yet to be announced.

As this was only announced last week, we are just starting to line up prize sponsors. As of today, we have BFG Technologies and HackerThreads lined up to donate prizes consisting on GeForceFX 5900 video cards and [H]ardWear. We also have great stuff from the fine folks at Alpha Novatech, CoolerMaster, EPoX, Logitech, Thermalright and TYAN.