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unusual facts about Video card



Hercules InColor Card

The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.

Medison

The announced computer had a 14-inch (35.5 cm) WXGA screen, an Intel Celeron processor at 1.5 GHz, 256MB of DDR333/400 RAM, a 40GB hard drive, VIA PN800 integrated graphics, a CD/DVD Combo drive and 802.11g wireless networking.

Plantronics Colorplus

The Plantronics Colorplus was a graphics card for IBM PC computers, first sold in 1982.

Unreal Tournament 2003

3.5 GB free, 64 MB of video memory recommended

Linux 2.2+ or Windows 98-Win7, 733 MHz x86 CPU, 128 MB RAM, video card with 16 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space, DirectX 8.1 or OpenGL 1.2

Mac OS X 10.2.6+, 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU, 256 MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX or Radeon with 32 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space

Western Digital

These included graphics cards (through their Paradise subsidiary, purchased 1986), core logic chipsets (by purchasing Faraday Electronics Inc. in 1987), SCSI controller chips for disk and tape devices (by purchasing ADSI in 1986), networking (WD8003, WD8013 Ethernet and WD8003S StarLAN).


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2nd Wind

Always a believer in cutting-edge technology, Todd used the video for the album's only single, "Change Myself," as a showcase for the NewTek Video Toaster, a desktop video card for the Commodore Amiga computer.

Hydra Engine

SweClockers.com, when testing the MSI Big Bang Fusion which features Hydra 200, gave it very poor ratings citing the following: Poor drivers, poor game support, small if any performance gain over a single video card, graphical artifacts, unstable gameplay and a high price tag.

Id Tech 5

The engine was first demonstrated at the WWDC 2007 by John D. Carmack on an eight-core computer; however, the demo used only a single core with single-threaded OpenGL implementation running on a 512 MB 7000 class Quadro video card.

Unreal Tournament 2003

Video Card: Video card with a 16 megabytes of video-RAM and DirectX 8 compatible(like ATI Rage 128 and Nvidia TNT)required,video card with a 32-128 megabytes of video RAM (like ATI Radeon and Nvidia Geforce 2)recommended