I'm curious if you can go Geforce 3/4/5 AGP -> Voodoo2 -> Voodoo2 and everything would work OK? Or does the primary card need to an old normal 2D only card?
I can't see why not. Just hope you have decent cooling and a PSU for it all.
Any idea how much power the cards use? I think the power supply is 450w.
I just didn't know if the Voodoos would operate with a newer card or not.
A 450 watt power supply should be fine, as long as it is of good quality of course.
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As long as you can get a 2D VGA signal from a primary card to the Voodoo 1 or 2, then any card will work as a primary. 450 Watts should be plenty for Voodoo 2 SLI and Geforce 5 series and below. The most important part to remember is to keep all the video cards separated by a slot for cooling reasons. The SLI bridge cable give enough room to span the distance of one PCI slot. If you can, use a fan over the video card area. Even if you put other cards between the video cards, they will more than likely not generate as much heat as the primary card, and the V2's.
I use a Geforce FX5200 with a Voodoo 2 on my retro pc, only for getting a good digital DVI output to connect the pc to my lcd tv. This way, I can also attach the VGA output from the Voodoo to the VGA input on the tv and avoid using passthrough cables that add noise to the image. When I want to play Glide games, the only thing I have to do is using the remote control 🤣.
Before getting the Geforce FX, I used a Geforce 2 with the passthrough cable with no problem at all. It works with any 2D videocard, AFAIK.
Using a GF 4600 together with a single Voodoo2 in one of my rigs, working just fine. Can't see why that second card would bring any new problems to the table that one card doesn't already.
I would however follow the advice to double check the power requirements of your planned setup, and how much current the PSU can supply on each rail, especially so if the CPU is an Athlon or something other 5V hungry.
why such a slow card, why not pair it up with an HD4670 AGP so you get glide, and can run any DX game you want until about 2011
I have been using a Voodoo 2 SLI back in the day with a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 AGP8x and Geforce FX 5200 64MB with no problems at all.
The OS was Windows 98SE. (Different Athlon XP CPUs)
wrote:why such a slow card, why not pair it up with an HD4670 AGP so you get glide, and can run any DX game you want until about 2011
Bridged AGPs can be horribly unstable and then there's the issue with drivers. The host OS isn't even mentioned, and for those more recent games the OP probably already has a very appropriate build for that already.
an AGP HD4whatever isn't going to be a performance miracle. This is very drifting from the question anyway, i'm sure the OP has their reasons to use a Geforce 3-4-FX card.
