'Standalone' PC gamers have four video cards that have been rare for 20 years to play Half-Life

The player Ross Tregemba (TheeRaccoon) surprised everyone when he shared on his HardOCP forum his own PC designed and installed 8 dominant Voodoo 2 graphics processors 20 years ago. Play legendary shooter Half-Life.

It took Ross Tregema a year to find and buy 4 Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi boards, owning 2 3dfx Voodoo graphics chips. Currently, these boards are very rare, they were used for military simulations. NASA's special machines and devices.

'Standalone' PC gamers have four video cards that have been rare for 20 years to play Half-Life Picture 1
PC runs Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi board.Photo: PCGamer.

In particular, one of 4 Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi boards that Ross Tregema bought is the extremely rare type of BIOS 546-0014-05 and is currently the 200SBi model with the only such configuration left in the market.

When I first tested, in 4 boards he bought, there were 2 defective ones. One only displays a blue image, the other has a texture error. Tregema must fix it and then assemble it to create its own classic and strange computer

Tregema's "unique" platform has a configuration that is able to produce beautiful images, and make the most of Voodoo 2 performance with SLI technology.

Around 1998, the 3dfx brand released a graphics card with the Voodoo product line. At that time, the Voodoo 2 model with 3 onboard graphics processing chips had a very high resolution (1,024 × 768 pixels).

Voodoo 2 is the first video card on the market with multicard and Scan-Line Interleave technology (SLI). Later Nvidia bought 3dfx. Currently, components with Voodoo 2 chips become 'rare to find'.