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Screaming Performance at a Killer Price!

A complete 2D/3D graphics solution based on the new Voodoo Banshee™ chipset from 3Dfx Interactive® Features a full 128-bit graphics core and the same 3D rendering technology used in the award-winning Voodoo2

16MB of high-speed SDRAM and a 250MHz DAC deliver awe-inspiring resolutions, rock-solid refresh rates, and stunning visual quality

Product Overview
If you're like most computer users, you want the maximum performance from your system, but you don't want to sacrifice compatibility or undertake a major upgrade of your computer to get there! What you need is a simple, quick, cost-effective solution from a company you can trust for quality, service, and support. You need the new 3D Blaster™ Banshee from Creative.

We packed a full 128-bit 2D graphics core, a 3D game engine based on the award-winning Voodoo2™ from 3Dfx Interactive®, hardware assist for video playback, 16MB of high-performance SDRAM, and a 250MHz DAC into one affordable, easy-to-install upgrade. You get accelerated drivers for Windows® 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT®, along with support for important industry standards like DirectX®, OpenGL®, and Glide™ for compatibility with the widest range of applications and games. And with the world's largest multimedia upgrade company behind it, you know the 3D Blaster Banshee will meet even the most stringent quality and reliability standards.

Whether you use your PC for playing the hottest 3D games, surfing the Internet, doing your homework, or even just to balance your budget, the 3D Blaster Banshee can make the experience faster, easier and more fun.

For the ultimate combination of price, performance and compatibility, you can't beat the 3D Blaster Banshee.

Bundled Software

Colorific® by Sonnetech, Ltd.
Ever printed an apple that somehow came out looking more like an orange? Now Colorific provides quick-and-easy, set-and-forget color characterization, giving you accurate screen-to-printer and monitor-to-monitor color matching between your monitor, printer and browser.

Use the Colorific Control Panel under Windows 95 or 98 for on-the-fly optimization of your display for Internet browsing, DVD video, games, business graphics, or desktop publishing.

3DEEP by Sonnetech, Ltd.
3DEEP uses Colorific's technology to allow game developers to automatically set the accurate gamma value for your monitor, resulting in games that look the way the designer intended. Now you can maximize your 3D gaming experience with picture perfect colors!

Plus, 3D Blaster Banshee includes an easy-to-use setup program, a full set of drivers for Windows 95, 98 and NT, BlasterControl™ Panel desktop control software, and the Creative Software MPEG-1 player.

Technical Specifications

Architecture Highlights

Voodoo2-based 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee core for the broadest game compatibility

128-bit wide graphics engine, memory interface, and VGA

3D rendering pipeline based on the Voodoo2

4 million triangle per second peak

Large 12K on-chip cache

36 billion operation per second pixel processing pipeline

3D Features

Integrated Voodoo2 3D core makes 3D Blaster™ Banshee the only 2D/3D accelerator architecture with support for Glide

Optimized drivers for the Microsoft® DirectX API, including DirectX 5.0 and 6.0 support

3Dfx "MiniGL" driver for Quake II and other hot titles

Full hardware triangle setup

On-chip texture caching

High-precision 16-bit Z-buffer

Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate perspective correction

Transparency and chroma-key with color mask

Alpha blending on source and destination pixels

Default environment maps and bump mapping

Per-pixel table-based fog/haze effects

Per-pixel MIP mapping, trilinear filtering

Full scene and sort-independent edge anti-aliasing

Supports palettized and compressed textures

2D Features

High-performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration with the full Windows GDI in hardware

Screaming fast 128-bit VGA with full IBM 8514 compatibility

Simultaneous tiled and linear memory support

Video Support

Double and triple-buffered video for smooth playback

Bob-and-weave de-interlacing

Hardware color space conversion

Supports packed and planar YUV 4:2:2 modes

X and Y smooth up and down scaling with bilinear filtering

Interfaces

PCI 66MHz support

Bus mastering DMA and dual command FIFO

256-bit internal buffering for maximum memory efficiency

Specifications

Single-slot 2D, 3D graphics and video accelerator

3Dfx Interactive® Voodoo Banshee™ chipset

Integrated 250MHz Palette-DAC supporting up to 1920x1200 at 75Hz

16MB of 100MHz SDRAM

MPEG-1/MPEG-2 and full-motion video playback acceleration

PCI bus version 2.1

Multi-display support under Windows® 98

VESA DDC 2B + DPMS

Full Plug-and-Play compliant

Drivers

Accelerated Windows NT® 4.0 and 5.0 display drivers

Accelerated Windows 95 and 98 display driver with support for DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectVideo, ActiveX and Glide

VESA VBE 3.0 compliant

Utilities

Enhanced BlasterControl™ desktop control utility

Sonnetech Colorific™ and 3Deep™

Creative® SoftMPEG-1 Player

Minimum System Requirements

IBM(r) PC or 100% compatible

Genuine Intel(r) Pentium(r) 90 or higher or 100% compatible - 16MB system memory, or higher

One available PCI 2.1 bus slot

CD-ROM drive

Windows 95, Windows 98, or WIndows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3) - Supports standard VGA and multi-frequency monitors

Warranty
Three-year limited hardware warranty covering parts and labor

2D Resolution Table

	No. of Colors
Refresh Rates (Hz) Resolution	256	64K	16.7M
640x480	60-120	60-120	60-120
800x600	60-120	60-120	60-120
1024x768	60-120	60-120	60-120
1152x864	60-120	60-120	60-120
1280x1024	60-120	60-120	60-120
1600x1200	60-85	60-85	60-85
1920x1080	60-75	60-75	60-75
1920x1200	60-75	60-75	60-72

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