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New user, New to Voodoos and SLI
13.07.08 at 00:20:12
 
I have a voodoo 2 and a banshee monster 3d II card and have tried to SLI then with the cable i made, following links from Various sites, i can get the cards installed but i can't seem to figure out if its even possible that i can link the two cards together....is this possible or am i just wasting my time

sys specs 500A mhz cpu
128 mb ram
Riva TNT 16 mb agp x2
voodoo 2 12 mb
banshee monster II 8 mb
win 98 se
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Reply #1 - 13.07.08 at 00:27:29
 
banshee monster II 8 mb ?
banshee is the chip after v2, with 2d core

normal driver cant run a 8MB with a 12MB in SLI a far i know
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Reply #2 - 13.07.08 at 06:32:17
 
there is a "mismatched driver". You can run two voodoo 2 cards with different memory setups like 12MB+8MB in a total of 16MBs
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Reply #3 - 13.07.08 at 07:02:36
 
Tritop wrote on 13.07.08 at 06:32:17:
there is a "mismatched driver". You can run two voodoo 2 cards with different memory setups like 12MB+8MB in a total of 16MBs


I have seen these drivers as well.  Can someone correct me if 12+8 is not 20, and not 16? k. thanks. bye.
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Reply #4 - 13.07.08 at 10:23:29
 
rottentreats wrote on 13.07.08 at 07:02:36:
Tritop wrote on 13.07.08 at 06:32:17:
there is a "mismatched driver". You can run two voodoo 2 cards with different memory setups like 12MB+8MB in a total of 16MBs


I have seen these drivers as well.  Can someone correct me if 12+8 is not 20, and not 16? k. thanks. bye.


If you think over it a bit, you might come to the conclusion, that in SLI the 2 cards have render the same amount of Data and the 12MB card will work as a 8MB version Wink
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Reply #5 - 13.07.08 at 16:05:40
 
I thought it over now that it is morning.  Late night drinking and thinking do not always go hand in hand  Cheesy
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Reply #6 - 13.07.08 at 20:14:44
 
@exxe - got the point, but the rest of you need to stay of the liquor I think... Cheesy

Anyhow, to answer the question at the top of the thread:

NO, it's NOT possible. Roll Eyes

A Banshee is a "standalone" card. Wink

You can only SLI two Voodoo 2 cards together. Smiley
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Reply #7 - 16.07.08 at 21:53:00
 
I think he has a whatever-Voodoo2 12MB and a Monster 3D II 8MB. If he had a Banshee, he might have thrown in "Fusion" since it stands somewhere on the card, as "Monster 3D II" does Wink
Perhaps he is a bit confused Cheesy

But doesn't the mismatched driver make it also possible to run 8MB and 12MB versions of V2s together in SLI? I never tried it myself...
Or was it just to run V2s with the same amount of memory but different manufacturers/layouts but same amount of mem together?
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Reply #8 - 17.07.08 at 19:51:24
 
ok so whatst he dealio here, can i use the mismatched drivers or is that card just going to be a stand alone excel?
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Reply #9 - 17.07.08 at 20:10:53
 
Just Another Internet User wrote on 17.07.08 at 19:51:24:
ok so whatst he dealio here, can i use the mismatched drivers or is that card just going to be a stand alone excel?


To answer that, please post a pic of the cards first, maybe we can help you better if we see what you got actually Wink
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Reply #10 - 17.07.08 at 20:38:54
 
got it figured out, two diff cards, i can't do anything with em, one is indeed a voodoo and the other is a monster 3dII so i'll just take the cards and do whatever with them, i'll find some use for them,.....i tok 5 mins and swapped the cards in and out of my tester rig
they are what i previously wrote, VD2 and M3D II not banshee... Sad
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Reply #11 - 18.07.08 at 17:42:34
 
Just Another Internet User wrote on 17.07.08 at 20:38:54:
got it figured out, two diff cards, i can't do anything with em, one is indeed a voodoo and the other is a monster 3dII so i'll just take the cards and do whatever with them, i'll find some use for them,.....i tok 5 mins and swapped the cards in and out of my tester rig
they are what i previously wrote, VD2 and M3D II not banshee... Sad


Guys!!! Guys!!!

Listen!

M I S M A T C H E D   Driver
means you can install and use a M I S M A T C H E D pair of two different Voodoo 2 Cards.

If you have one with 12MB and one with 8MB it will be 16MBs total.

YES WE CAN Wink


for example:

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8MB MONSTER II 8MB

+

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12MB CREATIVE VOODOO 2 12MB

=

16MB Mismatched SLI with
mismatched Voodoo 2 Driver

get it here
http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/mismatched-v2directx-athlon-setup-files.zip
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