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Message started by m14radu on 06.05.13 at 08:48:34

Title: voodoo3 SLI
Post by m14radu on 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.

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by Komponent on 06.05.13 at 08:53:54
This one?
http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/alienware/

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by m14radu on 06.05.13 at 09:01:36
thanks !

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



http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/stepsister/default.asp

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by nest on 06.05.13 at 14:15:08
https://6qt0pq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pCbwqxxgLF8KHNW3DOy23SyYP8_vSGi-QM_IN1e01tZLUCRgWhi_wk1bOP61v8azDPJWu-KFLbvxFHmnU39aeaM77t_NMjYfzdYxn7kXfo4yP1QurRlBbAvQxyjsixG9f/2lngxg2.jpg?psid=1

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by goriath on 06.05.13 at 15:01:53

nest wrote on 06.05.13 at 14:15:08:
https://6qt0pq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pCbwqxxgLF8KHNW3DOy23SyYP8_vSGi-QM_IN1e01tZLUCRgWhi_wk1bOP61v8azDPJWu-KFLbvxFHmnU39aeaM77t_NMjYfzdYxn7kXfo4yP1QurRlBbAvQxyjsixG9f/2lngxg2.jpg?psid=1


Does this stuff even work? ::)

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by m14radu on 06.05.13 at 15:09:15
Wow, that's a beauty :)

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

Is the used interface board, the board from the quantum3d mercury brick ?

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by Loeschzwerg on 06.05.13 at 16:13:08
Crazy stuff  8-)

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.

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by bucksavage on 07.05.13 at 03:32:26
Whew....can you imagine 4 of the recently unveiled here Voodoo 5500 128mb's in SLI?  Damn!

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by m14radu on 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  :o

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by Loeschzwerg on 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".

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by gdonovan on 08.05.13 at 22:29:03

goriath wrote on 06.05.13 at 15:01:53:

nest wrote on 06.05.13 at 14:15:08:
https://6qt0pq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pCbwqxxgLF8KHNW3DOy23SyYP8_vSGi-QM_IN1e01tZLUCRgWhi_wk1bOP61v8azDPJWu-KFLbvxFHmnU39aeaM77t_NMjYfzdYxn7kXfo4yP1QurRlBbAvQxyjsixG9f/2lngxg2.jpg?psid=1


Does this stuff even work? ::)


Last I knew, the V3 brick was in a display case at Quantum3D.

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by m14radu on 09.05.13 at 11:05:10
Whats happent with this brick ?
Is in the hand of a collector ?

Title: Re: voodoo3 SLI
Post by gdonovan on 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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