Post by procerus on 10.08.02 at 13:08:13
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2044002991
There was far less interest in these than I thought there'd be! ;D
They are single board Voodoo2 SLI cards similar to Quantum3Ds X-24 (consumer card) only these are the professional version which don't use the daughter card design. This should give an advantage in terms of cooling but you can clearly see the "disadvantage". You need a full length PCI slot.
I already own a conventional SLI rig and an X-24. But I couldn't resist buying one of these too.
It's a shame in a way because they were originally assembled into a Quantum3D Hg Mercury rig (see picture below) and, if someone had bought all four, they could have been reassembled. But the Mercury rig, although it provides fantastic bandwidth and AA, will only run OpenGL under Windows NT using Quantum3D's drivers. And the four of them together still only support a resolution of 1024x1024. Whereas each of these 200SBis will work like any Voodoo2 SLI rig under Windows 98 using 3dfx drivers which is what I'm more interested in as a gamer.
There was far less interest in these than I thought there'd be! ;D
They are single board Voodoo2 SLI cards similar to Quantum3Ds X-24 (consumer card) only these are the professional version which don't use the daughter card design. This should give an advantage in terms of cooling but you can clearly see the "disadvantage". You need a full length PCI slot.
I already own a conventional SLI rig and an X-24. But I couldn't resist buying one of these too.
It's a shame in a way because they were originally assembled into a Quantum3D Hg Mercury rig (see picture below) and, if someone had bought all four, they could have been reassembled. But the Mercury rig, although it provides fantastic bandwidth and AA, will only run OpenGL under Windows NT using Quantum3D's drivers. And the four of them together still only support a resolution of 1024x1024. Whereas each of these 200SBis will work like any Voodoo2 SLI rig under Windows 98 using 3dfx drivers which is what I'm more interested in as a gamer.
