ICE Ultra by Media 100

[Curious Turtle]

It was a bit of hardware that accelerated certain “ICE’d” filters. It’s basically irrelevant now, unless you are running it on a five year old machine.

It should still work up to AE 6. But you probably won’t be able to find drivers for modern OSes.

You can buy the updated but non-ICE’d filters still through Boris in their Final Effects Complete package. These software filters are faster on a newer computer than the ICE’d hardware accelerated ones.

Bottom line: Don’t expect any resale value on it :o)

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Ben

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[Ron Lindeboom]

ICE was basically made irrelevant about six or seven years ago by the then-new computer processors. ICE was great about 10 years ago and if you had ICE’d effects plug-ins, it rocked. Today, any current plug-in will likely run circles around ICE and Kathlyn and I had ICE cards and ICE’d effects sitting around here in boxes but finally just tossed them into the trash.

As Ben says, if you are running it on a REALLY old machine it might be relevant but I would say that even five year old machines are faster than ICE cards.

Your friend basically bought a digital doorstop.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
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[Andrew Yoole]

I’ve still got a couple of ICE boards in a cupboard somewhere. Perhaps you could collect enough of them to glue them all into an ICE sculpture…?

Sadly, it’s VERY expensive hardware that’s now completely worthless.