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3dfx Hardware & Software => Voodoo2 Discussions => Topic started by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 03 December 2004, 21:19:29

Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 03 December 2004, 21:19:29
I'm just thinking: can we combine more than two (say, 4 or 6) Voodoo 2 cards to achieve some sort of "double-SLI" (or triple, in case of 6) mode?? Is there any third-party drivers to support such configuration?
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: ArchAngelCD on 04 December 2004, 07:38:09
Sure you can and it's been done, it's called Mercury.

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Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 04 December 2004, 11:32:47
QuoteOriginally posted by ArchAngelCD

Sure you can and it's been done, it's called Mercury.

(//../public/uploaded/ArchAngelCD/200412473711_mercury.jpg)

Well, I heard about Mercury, but could it be done using our "normal" PC? Is there any drive or extra connection I should use?
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 04 December 2004, 11:50:32
Whoops, I mean DRIVER. Damn typo.
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: ps47 on 04 December 2004, 12:30:22
..you would need a ton of knowledge and probably some heavy duty hardware modifying tools.nthing a regular techie can don.
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 04 December 2004, 12:58:53
QuoteOriginally posted by ps47

..you would need a ton of knowledge and probably some heavy duty hardware modifying tools.nthing a regular techie can don.

I just wonder whether there's some fanmade drivers/utilities out there that enable us to put FOUR Voodoo2 at our "normal" PC and have them all work together.
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Ricardo on 03 January 2005, 02:20:47
What is the beneficts of using 4x12M VOODOO 2?
The system detect's 2 sli's? and 48M amount of memory?
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Avenger on 04 January 2005, 21:02:49
The Mercury is 8 V2 in SLI. But as already said, this requires modifikation on the hardware level, nothing a mere driver can do.
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Ricardo on 05 January 2005, 02:10:02
i never see a motherboard with 8 PCI format slots! [:p]
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: secretfj on 06 January 2005, 14:18:41
for Quantum 3D, they don't need 8 PCI slots as they have merged V2 SLI in one board and uses one PCI bus (usually two seperate cards), it's called X24
putting 4 X24 together makes mercury..(with many special tweaking in hardware absolutely by Q3D), have i got everything right?
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: Avenger on 08 January 2005, 02:46:34
Correct.
And I have the X-24, since I had only one PCI slot free and wanted SLI. Plus, it's slightly faster than regular SLI :)
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: no-X on 09 January 2005, 23:26:31
QuoteOriginally posted by secretfj

for Quantum 3D, they don't need 8 PCI slots as they have merged V2 SLI in one board and uses one PCI bus (usually two seperate cards), it's called X24
putting 4 X24 together makes mercury..(with many special tweaking in hardware absolutely by Q3D), have i got everything right?

Mercury contains from 4x Obsidian 200SBi boards (200SBi is not 2-X24!), Mercury AA module, Mercury Riser and Mercury I/O.

this is Obsidian 200SBi:

(http://www.3dfx.cz/q3d/200sbi_2.jpg)

and this is Obsidian 2 X24 (they are different ;))

(http://www.3dfx.cz/voodoo2/q3d_o2x24.jpg)
Title: Double SLI with Voodoo 2? Is it possible?
Post by: cl1986 on 11 February 2005, 05:38:42
i need x 24 driver for win xp

ne1??

Bueller??

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