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Hercules 3D Prophet III

The Hercules 3DProphet III arrived in 2001, and was based on the nVidia GeForce 3 graphics accelerator chipset.

Released 2001
Bus AGP 2x/4x
Chipset nVidia GeForce 3
Standards VGA
Memory 64 MB DDR SDRAM
RAMDAC  
Ports 15-pin DSUB (analogue RGB video out), S-Video and TV-out
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Price At launch: $?
See Also Dynamite 3D, 3D Prophet 4000XT

Hercules' website had this to say about the 3D Prophet III:
"Power, acceleration, precision, and flexibility – all wrapped up in a fragging powerhouse. This is the 3D Prophet™ III. Now you can control and dominate in gaming arenas anywhere. NVIDIA®’s enhanced GeForce3™ processor further improves any 3D graphic-pumping game, and with the new Lightspeed Memory Architecture™, gameplay speeds are unsurpassed - even in the highest resolutions. You know you’re looking for the greatest in gaming splendor and glory, so grab hold of the gear that can give it to you.".

The card ran its core clock at 200 MHz with the DDR video memory running at 460 MHz. It was hardware-compatible with OpenGL 1.2 and DirectX 8.

 

Board Revisions

 

Competition

 

 

In the Media

 

Setting it Up


Downloads

Operation Manual
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Original Utility Disk
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