Diamond Monster 3D II

The Monster 3D II was Diamond's 3DFX Voodoo2 3D graphics accelerator card. The 8 MB of onboard memory was split into 4 MB of frame buffer and 4 MB to store textures.

	Released	1998
	Bus	PCI
	Chipset	3dfx Voodoo 2
	Standards	(none)
	Memory	8 MB or 12 MB
	Ports	15-pin DSUB (video passthrough) 15-pin DSUB (video out)
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	Price	At launch: $250
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It does not support triple-buffered mode, so double-buffering is all you can achieve. For GLide support, this is a good, but pricey, option.

 

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Competition

 

In the Media

 

Setting it Up

Downloads

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Original Utility Disk (missing) Get in touch if you can provide this missing item!

 

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The Diamond Monster 3D II