The Voodoo 4 4500 PCI video accelerator board will feature a single VSA-100 chip, a fill rate of 333-367 megapixels per second and 32M bytes of video memory.

CNN: 3dfx announces Voodoo 4 and 5 - Novmeber 16, 1999

Graphics power is provided by an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card with 16MB of video RAM -- the same accelerator that's found in the latest Power Mac G4.

CNN: Up close and personal with the Mac G4 Cube

For games and video, look for a machine with a graphics accelerator.

CNN: Tips for the PC Buyer

Now BitTorrent says that its new service, which it calls its Delivery Network Accelerator, or DNA, will let users begin viewing video midway through the download, making it seem like instantaneous playback.

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