Vid card question

hdncollision · **Posted:** Mon 03-08-2004 7:49PM

Vid card question...

Alright...this is for my second computer...so don't give me crap about having crappy vid cards. The current setup is a generic 2D vid card paired with a 12MB Voodoo2. I have a 16 MB voodoo3.

Would it help to leave the 2 in boosting the 3, or should I use it in another computer?

I'm running mandrake linux 9.2 btw...

hdncollision · **Posted:** Mon 03-08-2004 8:04PM

btw...it's a 16 MB voodoo3 2000 AGP card and a 12 MB Voodoo2 3D effects card.

UrLocalGuru · **Posted:** Mon 03-08-2004 8:21PM

to be honest i dont know

its one of the good old vd2s though the acclelerators??

u got it in sli or not, ive got an extra i could sell for like $5

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you cant have the voodoo2 and voodoo3 accelerating at the same time, its one or the other

UrLocalGuru · **Posted:** Mon 03-08-2004 9:21PM

the v3's are actial cards not accelerators

but i dont think the v2's are doing much, all they do is make 2d cards 3d compliant, they dont make things better for alredy 3d cards

thats just my belief i cant say i would personally know

lordoftheworld · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 1:24AM

i've got another voodoo2 card sitting at home, if you've got one of those cables that will let 2 voodoo2's run in parallel, you can have mine. i'm not even sure if it works. .

nuklyus · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 11:51AM

Wow, this thread is total flashback territory. *thumbs up* to Voodoo 2's.. haha..

but. anyways, you can run the Voodoo 2 and 3 at the same time (if one is PCI and the other is AGP), but as stated before, they can't both be used as graphics accelerators at the same time but.. you can use them to run a dual monitor setup.

UrLocalGuru · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 2:55PM

what a free v2

hook me up ill stick it in this piece of crap im putting otgether

Castorite · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 9:39PM

Well, dammit. Ur called it.
I wish I could've posted earlier. It would've been awesome to get some sort of 3D accelerator on my crappy-ass Matrox G100.

Mee · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 10:56PM

i have an 8mb creative voodoo2... i think i have the vga loopback and sli cables, but not 100% sure. its at home but ill bring it up here in a week and a half if someone needs it.

NPlack · **Posted:** Tue 03-09-2004 11:54PM

Ummm, just to clear things up...

Voodoo2's are just 3D add-on cards. They have no 2D of their own. They just run a 3D overlay to the 2D cards. Voodoo2's cannot be used in a multi-monitor setup (no 2D).

adding a voodoo2 to a voodoo3 is pointless and will result in lower speed. The voodoo3 is just a voodoo2 + 2D and at twice the clock speed (same output as two voodoo2's in SLI mode)

now, if the drivers let you (highly doubtful), you could hook the two voodoo2's to the 2d card you already have, and run it along with your voodoo3 to run a dual-monitor setup.

-Plack
1xVoodoo5, 4xVoodoo3, 1xRadeon, 4xWildcat

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