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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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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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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Tritop Full Member Offline «» 3dfx Collector «» Posts: 175	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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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Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI
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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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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... Anyhow, to answer the question at the top of the thread: NO, it's NOT possible. A Banshee is a "standalone" card. You can only SLI two Voodoo 2 cards together.
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Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI
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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Just Another Internet User YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 3	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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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Tweakstone Full Member Offline Banshee - Addict Posts: 217 Gender:	Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI 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
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Re: New user, New to Voodoos and SLI
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:

8MB MONSTER II 8MB

+

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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