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I've seen some images online about a voodoo 2 card, with 2 voodoo 2 cards on one board.
Does anyone know of its excistance or is it a fake?
And what kind of vga cable is this?

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And what about this, this cant be real, can it?

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Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 2 of 12, by The Serpent Rider

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Quantum cards use Medusa cable. Not easy to find now, but relatively easy to replicate. You can still use them via TV-out though.

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Reply 3 of 12, by Aebtdom

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Whow, the awesomeness of these cards are unpresedented.

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Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 4 of 12, by The Serpent Rider

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Also late revisions had 125 Mhz EDO memory and potentially could be overlocked quite high, if V2 chips are capable.

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Reply 5 of 12, by havli

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Aebtdom wrote on 2021-04-10, 19:00:

I've seen some images online about a voodoo 2 card, with 2 voodoo 2 cards on one board.
Does anyone know of its excistance or is it a fake?

Oh, the Obsidian2 200SBi. I have one, so definitely real 😁 It works just like V2 SLI, but there are some driver difficulties, so it is better to run two V2 in SLI. Not to mention the medusa cable, which makes the Obsidian problematic to use.

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Reply 6 of 12, by Aebtdom

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How's the 200SBI performance compared to the SLI setup? (like 3DM99 benchmarks)

And do you have pictures of the card in your setup?

Builds:

Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 7 of 12, by Aebtdom

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Someone overbid my friend online... for this gem tofay.

What do you guys think? Worth the money?

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Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 8 of 12, by Aebtdom

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Gem pics added for obvious reasons.

Builds:

Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 9 of 12, by Warlord

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Aebtdom wrote on 2021-04-12, 17:59:

Someone overbid my friend online... for this gem tofay.

What do you guys think? Worth the money?

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As an investment, it's questionable. There might come a time when the next generation the Gen Z kids don't give a shit about it so your return investment might not be so good. If getting it to play games with also questionable. At least for me I have like 2 sets of working voodoo 2 slis and a bunch of bad doner cards. If getting it to brag about that you have it might be the only reason to get it, that's probably not a great reason either. Since you have a 3dfx avatar and you had to come in here and ask us if its real and you didn't even know. So Not worth it to me at least.

Reply 10 of 12, by Aebtdom

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Yeah, I only found out about its excistence very recently.
Always thought there only would be the voodoo lineup. But aparently there is more. But aparently they are very rare to say the least.
Yesterday a sb200 went for 1310€. Insane.

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Builds:

Xp3000+ gf3 ti200 + vd2 SLI 12MB + 768MB + SB live @ WinXP & 98 Dualboot.

P2 350mhz + Diamond Viper V550 + 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB + AWE64 + 128MB SDR @ msdos / win98.

Reply 11 of 12, by The Serpent Rider

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Worth the money?

Not really. AFAIK it's useless outside of professional applications, like flight simulators. But it's relatively small amount of money for someone with a good income. And not like you'll have a chance to buy Mercury brick often.
But hey, you can use them as 4 separate Voodoo 2 SLI setups, which take just one PCI slot!

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Reply 12 of 12, by havli

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Aebtdom wrote on 2021-04-12, 14:17:

How's the 200SBI performance compared to the SLI setup? (like 3DM99 benchmarks)

And do you have pictures of the card in your setup?

Same as V2 SLI. It is just PCI-PCI bridge and two V2 chipsets on one board, after all.

Sorry, no pictures, I never used it outside of quick test to check if it works properly after I bought it.

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