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janskjaer Ex Member	Multiple Voodoo2 SLI's 26.11.03 at 13:36:55 I own a Creative Labs Voodoo2 SLI (2 x 12Mb's). Is it possible to link up more than just 2 cards? Would it be possible to maybe link up 4, or 8 even (if a motherboard has 8 PCI slot's ) ?? Would it be possible??
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Micha Senior Member Offline Got milk? Posts: 317 Gender:	Re: Multiple Voodoo2 SLI's Reply #1 - 26.11.03 at 14:39:01 nop. as you may noticed, the cards have just one sli-connector which is fully used when you connect 2 boards. the chips thereselfs are able to and that's what quantum3d made use of with their amazing obsidian boards series..i don't think that there's another firm who made a larger varation of the voodoo2 sli system
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Re: Multiple Voodoo2 SLI's
Reply #2 - 01.12.03 at 20:05:58

Micha's correct!

Quantum3D made cards with two Voodoo2s SLIed on one card. And then they linked them together! So this rig is eight Voodoo2s!

But the advantage was that it enabled anti-aliasing in hardware at a time before other graphics cards came with the capability. The Quantum3D Heavy Metal Mercury could only run resolutions up to 1024x1024 and only had drivers for Windows NT. But it was used for technical demonstrations of the upcoming Voodoo5's capabilities before there was usable silicon.

I hope to own one in time... Wink

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629K

of free conventional memory in full DOS mode using QEMM 9.0 (or 628K with UMBPCI.SYS providing real mode for FastVid) with SmartDrive, CD-ROM, CuteMouse, sound support and UniRefresh all loaded high.

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