Should I buy...A 3DFX Card?

[vleespet]

Wow, that's the strangest thing I've ever seen since the invasion of Mars .

 

[Modem]

Actually, come to think of it, there are cards out there that are two voodoo2's in one card already... now if I can just remember the name. Just thought of it since I was looking through an old PC Gamer... damn n' stuff, need to thiiiink of thaaaat name... it'll save a PCI slot after all.

EDIT:-----

After 30 seconds of searching, it's the Quantum 3D OBSIDIAN2 X-24 (long name, good card)

http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/dax351.htm

Now it's just a matter of trying to find one for sale. ^_^

 

[Flash]

Actually, come to think of it, there are cards out there that are two voodoo2's in one card already... now if I can just remember the name. Just thought of it since I was looking through an old PC Gamer... damn n' stuff, need to thiiiink of thaaaat name... it'll save a PCI slot after all.

EDIT:-----

After 30 seconds of searching, it's the Quantum 3D OBSIDIAN2 X-24 (long name, good card)

This is not exactly X-24 - X-24 is one board of four. Whole thing is called Quantum3D Mercury and it's like 96 Mb Voodoo2 with FSAA support (it's done through that AAlchemy board on the top) and it's faster than Voodoo5 5500 in Glide (of course it can't work with 32-bit color ) In Glide2x even V5 6000 can't beat this thing

X-24 alone is like 2x Voodoo2 w/ composite and S-Video out - not bad too but 4 of them with FSAA is really great, only bad thing is 4 PCI slots, not a problem if you have only PCI sound card but i have 2 SCSI controllers and sound card so i have only 3 free slots...

 

[vleespet]

Just wondering, is it possible create the same thing with a few voodoo5 cards?

 

[Modem]

Just wondering, is it possible create the same thing with a few voodoo5 cards?

Don't believe so. Voodoo 5's are not passthrough cards... at least that I know of. Don't have, or ever had a voodoo5 though.

 

[jdsony]

It would be cool if most other cards could be doubled up...It would definetly make sense for the consumer in cost savings. You wouldn't be able to get newer features by adding a second board but you would be able to get better performance. If your on a tight budget you would buy 1 video card and then when it comes time that games just aren't running well anymore chances are the card you already have is dirt cheap now and you could just buy another.

Of course this wouldn't make sense for the video card companies because they wouldn't be making much money. The way I see though is I'm not going to be shelling out the money for an expensive video card anytime soon but I would gladly buy another Radeon 8500 if I could run 2 at once.

 

[Flash]

BTW i was wrong about dual-input monitor - this thing can work in passthrough mode like any Voodoo1-2 card.

 

[Tagrineth]

I have an X-24, and they really do NOT like working in Windows XP.

Better off with normal Voodoo2 SLI.

Other thing about X-24 is, they tend to run -quite- hot, and often won't work at the stock 90MHz. When I can get mine to work, I have to run at 80MHz or it'll lock up.

 

[jessman1988]

So you want to "upgrade" to a Voodoo 2? What kind of CPU do you have? The CPU is more important to N64 emulation so if you're computer is too slow (I'm thinking it must be to be upgrading to a Voodoo) then the graphics card doesn't even matter. If you do have a decent CPU and you want a dirt cheap graphics card you can get a Geforce2/3 or an older Radeon for under $50.

Not to be contrary, but a GF2MX can cost well over $60, but then again Wal-Mart DOES rip people off. Even an employee said it to my face. My pc only came with 128MB DDR RAM, and that's not good enough to do anything. Now they're charging me $64+ for an out-dated GF card. This REALLY stinks, heaves, whomps, sucks, blows, or whatever else you can come up with.

 

[Clements]

Hmm, well it's nearly Christmas, so you could get on overhaul upgrade on your system, and if its a family comp, you could get it pretty powerful... All you need is a decent graphics card and motherboard with AGP 8X support (none of this PCI nonsense), and coupling an MX card with a superb 2400+ processor is a damn crime even if its better than a Savage!

I hope you're an atheist or Christian and celebrates Christmas and its ritualistic sharing of material goods :happy:

I'm going to upgrade my comp after Christmas when the prices go down to make it faster (like yours in a way!)

Buying from Wal-Mart was a pretty bad idea.. I saved hundreds of pounds buying from a small online retailer that is close to where I live. Go even further afield for major savings.

Anyway, I have no idea why this is in the Project64 forum, so I'll boot it to TechTalk where the techy guys are!