Scylla wrote:

I can assure you that they did exist. I bought one on eBay many years ago, but had to sell it. I had to relinquish most part of my GPU collection, but I still have the Volari V5 at hand.

Awful performance and buggy drivers, but a curiosity nonetheless. That and one of those 3dfx boards from the company which integrated them for workstations and whose name I can't recall now.

Primary image?

Or may be RealVision VREngine (there were 3dfx boards with T&L and XGI 8300 based as well)?

Slaventus86 wrote:

Or may be RealVision VREngine (there were 3dfx boards with T&L and XGI 8300 based as well)?

Did RealVision VRengine voodoo based cards ever made it to the consumer market? I have seen pictures of the Voodoo Graphics & VoodooII cards

subhuman@xgtx wrote:

Did RealVision VRengine voodoo based cards ever made it to the consumer market? I have seen pictures of the Voodoo Graphics & VoodooII cards

Not sure, but probably not. Though there were Realvision 3dfx boards without T&L

I've got some information about Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro MAXX. I've contacted author of this article http://www.ixbt.com/video2/sapphire-8.shtml (it is in russian), he had this card in his collection (here is old photo of his collection - http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/over2k4/collage2.jpg , Radeon 9800 Pro MAXX is in the bottom). There were only two cards built - both were not functional at all. Sapphire just put two pieces in one and added some components like molex connector or digit display to look like engineering sample. So this was just a way of marketing

I got a knack for collecting video cards until it turned an expensive hobby and realized I couldn't possibly cram all that junk at home. I thought I sold the Volari V5 and it looks like it, but I can remember that back in 2005/2006 XGI Volari V8 Duo would pop from time to time on eBay.

As I already said in another thread I used to search for "Voodoo 6000" on eBay and once or twice a year one would appear listed, with ending prices in the $1000 range. I saved one of those completed auctions, if I find it (I doubt that I may be able to find that after so many years) I'll post it.

XGI Volari product of some type or another DID get moved by normal vendors:

https://www.newegg.com/xgi-volari-v3-v3-64mb- … N82E16814270002
https://www.newegg.com/startech-com-model-pci … N82E16815158241

However, I'm not sure about the V8 Duo specifically.

I'd be very interested in seeing how the single-chip cards did in benchmarks, since it seems that most of the weaknesses of the V8 Duo had little to do with the chip and everything to do with the card.