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Specifically, they tell the buyer the card's memory amount and type. These kits bundled a 'feature reduced' several pin headers and other parts not installed full length PCI MPEG2 analog overlay decoder card made by divion. Diamond Multimedia , F. Diamond instead used ESS's less powerful chips to continue the line. Views Read Edit View history. However, as Microsoft Windows gained market share and newer graphics products entered the market, it was later relegated to the cheaper, value-oriented products and the SpeedStar branding was expanded to other products. A special BIOS patch was released by Diamond for the Stealth II S which brought its clock speed up to the same level as the high-end Verite V chip, resulting in equal performance at a significantly lower price.

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Growth in the add-on sound card market, also an ongoing Diamond business, was tempered by the bankruptcy of Aureal Semiconductor and subsequent asset purchase by vertically-integrated Cpi Technologies.

Otherwise it was technically identical to the original Monster Sound. Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many 44mb of multimedia technology. The audio engine further received poor reviews regarding MIDI quality, which was a common standard for multimedia music playback at the time. Diamond again built expansion boards.

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The Monster3D line was based on 3dfx Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips which did not contain a 2D engine, requiring a separate VGA card connected externally using a pass-through cable. This page was last edited on 8 Novemberat The company was founded by Chong Moon Lee and H. This chip was rather slow and basic.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diamond Multimedia. Windows 98 or 98SE is not recommended due to problems that may happen with video color and alignment. Retrieved from " https: It was a substantial step forward in gaming audio, with impressive 3D audio positioning and other effects.

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The Diamond Monster Sound gaming sound card series was the first sound card to have its own on-board processor to handle audio operations. The Pcj Impact was the value-oriented sound card line from Diamond.

In SLI, a pair of Voodoo2 boards splits the effort of rendering the 3D scene between alternating raster lines, allowing performance to be nearly ,onster. Articles needing additional references from May All articles needing additional references Pages using deprecated image syntax All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July Commons category link from Wikidata Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia.

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The series was highly successful as the Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chipsets introduced consumer-grade 3D graphics into the PC and arcade markets, whereas such capabilities had previously been present primarily in very high-end CAD and graphic design workstations. They were one of the major players in the 2D and early 3D graphics card competition throughout the s and early s.

Diamond instead used ESS's less powerful chips to continue the line.

The architecture of the NV1 predates the Microsoft Direct3D philosophy and, as such, 3s compatibility was a problem with the Diamond Edge boards.

This article needs additional citations for verification. This brand was originally created decades ago as just "Fire" by the design 4mg of the professional computer graphics pioneer SPEA Software AG from Starnberg Germany that was about acquired by Diamond.

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Diamond Multimedia resurfaced in after the brand and assets had been purchased by Best Data. Oci are a slightly newer product with the 'Navigator' player software having a cleaner user interface. May Learn how and when to remove this template message. Still the lineup consisted of several capable cards. Huh, who acted as the technical designer. The MX was the last of the Monster Sound cards. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. However, the first major product after the merger, branded as the S3 Savagewas a commercial failure.

If the first digit was 2then the card used standard DRAM.

Diamond MultimediaF. The Vortex2-equipped MX was a superior card for 3D audio.