Falcon Northwest komt met een GeForce kaart gebaseerd op 3D prophet DDR-DVI maar dan wel met een paar extra features zoals heatsinks op alle ram chippies en standaard core/mem snelheid van 150/346 MHz .
Ashland, Oregon, March 21, 2000 - In a joint R&D effort, Hercules and Falcon Northwest have created the fastest gaming solution for hardcore gamers. Hercules’ award-winning 3D Prophet DDR-DVI has been re-designed to take full advantage of the latest technology and precision engineering of Falcon Northwest’s hardcore gaming PC systems. This card is currently only available to Falcon Northwest customers, and begins shipping in Falcon’s custom MACH V gaming PCs on Monday.
''The Falcon Northwest Special Edition Series is the pinnacle of enthusiast hardware for gamers” said Kelt Reeves, President of Falcon Northwest. “We are very proud to have the best graphics vendors, like Hercules and 3dfx, work with us to provide the elite gamers these special products. Once again Hercules has shown their commitment to the hardcore gamers by meeting our wish list of exceedingly tough target speeds. ''[break]Hier de lijst met extra features:[/break]· The fastest 3D chip clock to date - NVIDIA’s GeForce 256™ chipset running at a minimum of 150 MHz core chip speed.
· The fastest RAM ever used on a graphics card - 32 MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) video RAM running at a minimum of 346 MHz memory clock.
· Advanced cooling - a custom fan on the core chip and individual heatsinks for every memory chip provide the best cooling ever offered on a consumer graphics board.
· Smart power management - the cooling fan runs directly off the power supply to allow more processing power for the graphics engine.
Of NVidia dit leuk vindt betwijfel ik, ze vonden het ook niet goed dat Asus de GeForce V6600 DeLuxe op een standaard snelheid van 150/195 zou laten lopen.