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06.05.13 at 08:48:34
 
There is a rumor that a company developed a system that could use 2 Voodoo3 2000 PCI linked together with a third controller card, that let one card render the top half and one the bottom.
I was not able to find more about this project, no pictures and no schematics.
Does anybody have more info related to this rumor or how to connect 2 voodoo3 in SLI ?

So far the only know SLI is the AAlchemy 4116 with 4 Voodoo3 from Quantum3D.
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Reply #1 - 06.05.13 at 08:53:54
 
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Reply #2 - 06.05.13 at 09:01:36
 
thanks !

I didn't know about the Metabyte's "Stepsister" Graphics Technology Smiley

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Reply #4 - 06.05.13 at 15:01:53
 
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Reply #5 - 06.05.13 at 15:09:15
 
Wow, that's a beauty Smiley

hmm, if they manage to run in SLI 4 voodoo3, to run 4 voodoo5 5500 should work too !
We will get practicaly an AAlchemy Smiley ( 4x2 VSA )

Is the used interface board, the board from the quantum3d mercury brick ?
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Reply #6 - 06.05.13 at 16:13:08
 
Crazy stuff  Cool

Yes, it looks like the module used for the Mercury Brick. The name would fit: "Quantum3D AAlchemy Module

But if you ask me, same problem as with the AAlchemy 4116... no drivers.

Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 SLI never was a question of "does it work", more who is able to write some drivers and declare one of the cards as master.
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Reply #7 - 07.05.13 at 03:32:26
 
Whew....can you imagine 4 of the recently unveiled here Voodoo 5500 128mb's in SLI?  Damn!
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Reply #8 - 07.05.13 at 06:39:24
 
we need also the interface, not only the drivers.
afaik the source code from 3dfx is still not available....damn, if we had that  Shocked
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Reply #9 - 07.05.13 at 07:28:13
 
m14radu wrote on 07.05.13 at 06:39:24:
we need also the interface, not only the drivers.


Not necessarily, everything can be handeled via software. It's just a matter of "how to declare the master" and "how is the performance via PCI bus".
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Reply #10 - 08.05.13 at 22:29:03
 
goriath wrote on 06.05.13 at 15:01:53:


Last I knew, the V3 brick was in a display case at Quantum3D.
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Reply #11 - 09.05.13 at 11:05:10
 
Whats happent with this brick ?
Is in the hand of a collector ?
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Reply #12 - 11.05.13 at 12:53:43
 
m14radu wrote on 09.05.13 at 11:05:10:
Whats happent with this brick ?
Is in the hand of a collector ?


Last I knew, still at Quantum3D but that was a few years ago.
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