Club 3D, founded in 1997 as Colour Power (Club 3D since 2005), is a Dutch brand of

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s and digital multimedia products such as TV tuner cards and digital

sound card A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. The term ''sound card'' is also applied to external audio ...

s for PCs, featuring

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graphics chipsets and technologies.

History

Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from

S3 Graphics S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the S3 Trio, Trio, S3 ViRGE, ViRGE, S3 Savage, Savage, and S3 Chrome, Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI T ...

3dfx 3dfx Interactive, Inc. was an American computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units, and later, video cards. It was a pioneer in the f ...

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and NVIDIA. Previously the only

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in the world that officially sold AMD/ATI and NVIDIA under one brand. * 2001 – Pioneers at being the first AIB (Add-in-Board) for ATI/AMD. Launched ATI AIB solutions at Computex, 2001. * 2001 – Branch office in Germany for the DACH market * 2003 – Official partnership with S3 Graphics * 2003 – Official partnership with XGI Technologies * 2004 – Generated an excess of 900,000 retail unit sales of ATI Technologies video card graphics adapters * 2006 – Official partnership with NVIDIA Corporation * 2006 – Launched Theatron products, range of sound cards * 2007 – Launched VAX Barcelona bag accessories range * 2010 – Official launch of the accessories division * 2011 – Official launch of high end 80 plus switching power supplies division * 2011 – Official launch of SenseVision division, USB powered video graphics adapters * 2013 - Drops NVIDIA support and commits to AMD only. * 2016 - First to market worldwide with the Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 Active Adapters * 2016 - Stopped manufacturing graphics cards.

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