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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.

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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!

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