At the heart of this great add-on card is a chip made by 3Dfx Interactive Graphics. Dubbed the Voodoo chip, it provides superfast acceleration of 3-D images. A supplied cable connects it to your existing graphics card via the monitor port. But when you launch a game or another program that uses some kind of supported 3-D graphics acceleration, the Monster 3D card takes over. The results can be pretty spectacular, depending on the title.
Game play is smoother in almost all cases.
With some games, depending on the type of 3-D acceleration being used, the graphics are beautifully enhanced. This not only accelerates graphics, but also smooths them out. GLQuake, the OpenGL version, smooths these out, making everything appear much more realistic. Quake II , due out sometime before Christmas, is one of these, and I caught a demo of it running on a card that uses the 3Dfx chips. It was, in a word, amazing.