Sphere478 wrote on 2021-12-11, 04:52:It’s a dual 233mmx but that aside, I don’t disagree . I’m building for fun not for balance. […]
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RichB93 wrote on 2021-12-11, 04:15:
A 233 MMX can't saturate a Voodoo2 let alone a dual GPU card.
It’s a dual 233mmx but that aside, I don’t disagree . I’m building for fun not for balance.
darry wrote on 2021-12-11, 04:49:That dual Rage 128 Pro card was the Rage Fury Maxx https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ati-rage … review,156.html and predates […]
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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-12-11, 00:44:
There is no such thing as crossfire for radeon 7500 using later drivers is there? I know at some point they allowed crossfire without the crossfire bridge and I guess they were doing it with rage 128s…. So???
Maybe using the dual 128 driver modded for 7500 gpus? Would the driver care that it’s in two slots?
That dual Rage 128 Pro card was the Rage Fury Maxx https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ati-rage … review,156.html and predates Crossfire by 5-6 years . Expecting the last drivers released for it, in 2000 to
a) work with any other card (Rage Fury Maxx drivers were specific to that card), especially one with a completely different later architecture (Radeon)
b) support the Rage Fury Maxx's alternate frame rendering technology on a chip (Radeon) that likely has no support for it
c) work over bandwidth constrained (133MB/second max total fir the entire bus) legacy PCI, while the Fury Maxx doesn't even use a PCI bridge in its dual-chip implementation (so existing drivers likely aren't designed to work that way).
d) assuming a, b and c are not insurmountable issues, offer an actual performance increase
is very close to wishful thinking, IMHO and respectfully .
* And to illustrate point c) more concretely, consider that a 640x480 output, in 16-bit color (2 bytes per pixel), at 30 frames (theoretically generated by one of the cards and sent to the other) would come to 640x480*2*30 bytes= 18432000 bytes = 17.578125 Megabytes . 32-bit color would double that (or at least add 50%, assuming we don't need the alpha channel data) and 1024x768 at 30 fps in 32-bit color would require up to 90 Megabytes . That is per second .
Makes sense.
So pretty much the 5500 is the only dual gpu that makes any sense?
I would say "is possible" instead of "makes sense", if the plan is to use it in a Pentium 233 based system as, at current prices, that's a lot of money to put into a card that likely won't be faster than a Voodoo 2 (might even be slower depending on driver overhead, as Voodoo 5 was meant for much faster systems).
That said, it's your money, your system and your choice, so if you want to mod by putting a modern differential and racing tires/wheels on a Ford model T with a stock engine to see what might happen, nobody's stopping you . It might actually be fun to see what happens . If you do take that path, I hope you'll find another (faster) system to host that Voodoo 5 once you've finished testing . Either, way it's your choice as well.
Above all, have fun .
EDIT : Just a thought, though, it may be cheaper and more interesting to see if you can get an AGP Rage Fury Maxx (or other AGP cards) working in a PCI slot using one of those custom AGP to PCI converters/interposers . No idea if it would work, but you might appreciate the challenge .