Reply 20 of 62, by m1919
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wrote:About the Obsidian X-24, I had heard this performs more slowly than a pair of separate Voodoo 2 cards. Is that true? I've got two 12MB BlackMagic cards running in SLI, I sold a spare third one on ebay recently. (I figured it was redundant to have, albeit a good collector's item, so I don't think I'll bid on it at the moment as I'm strapped for extra cash.) I also read there were overheating issues, but Quantum3d had their own special drivers for that card.
@Standard Def Steve, I don't have a 5950, but I do have the 5900 XT AGP card! 😀 I love that thing.
These were pretty much standard clocked Voodoo 2s in SLI on a PCI interface. They should perform pretty much on par with two separate Voodoo 2s in SLI. They did have some problems with overheating because of the "sandwich" design so they started producing addon fan/card brackets. The cards should be able to run standard 3dfx reference drivers, but I think the Obsidian specific drivers come with their own custom control panel.
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