AidanExamineer wrote:Yeah just found that listing. Last one. From China. Rock and roll. 😁
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I was worried once the posts on the cards were unscrewed the D-sub socket would come loose, but the VooDoo isn't built like that. So, s'all good. 😀
No the connector isn't anchored with the posts - it's separately anchored. The posts serve to anchor the slot-shield to the board itself; on the Voodoo cards you have two VGA connectors so pulling the posts on one of them won't make that thing fall off. The VGA connectors can actually exist without that shield installed at all, but the card won't sit securely in the case (because there's nothing to attach it to beyond being in the PCI slot).
King_Corduroy wrote:Can't you simply just use a regular VGA cable? I literally know nothing about voodoo, and as I new owner of one I'm a bit curious about how to use it.
Voodoo and Voodoo2 take a VGA connection from whatever provides 2D, so you take VGA out on the 2D card and feed that to the VGA in on the 3dfx card. That cable needs to be male to female (because all graphics cards will have a female connector for their VGA output, and the Voodoo has a male input connector (to differentiate it from the output afaik)). Then you need to connect your monitor, or whatever, to the Voodoo's output to get both 2D and 3D images.
The pass-through cable is that male to female part. The Voodoo card is designed with posts to screw-in the VGA connector (just like the output connector on the Cirrus, or whatever), to allow the cable to be securely attached to both sides (the ebay link actually shows the kind of cable that would've come with a 3dfx card when it was new).
Generally "regular VGA cable" is male to male, like what most LCDs include to hook up to their female VGA inputs. That can't be plugged into the 3dfx card's input. VGA extension cables, which are male to female, and designed to go between a VGA output (like from your graphics card) and some other VGA cable (like the male end of a monitor's captive input cable) can work, and I've used a 6 ft model for testing my Voodoo2 without any problems. But having a 6 ft loop of thick cable hanging off the back of your computer isn't the most ergonomic thing in the world.