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VOODOO 2 12mb sli

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First post, by jnjg25

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so i bought 2 pci VOODOO 2 12mb sli cards , i have sevral pentium 2s 3s and 4s and some amd counterparts i was curious what computer would be the best to put them in, im thinking pentium 4s, also can you have 2 pci cards and 1 agp?

Reply 1 of 6, by Munx

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jnjg25 wrote:

what computer would be the best to put them in

I'd suggest Pentium 3. P2 might become a bottleneck in some games at low resolutions while a P4 is a bit of an overkill. Nothing wrong with going with any of these, but from my personal view, a P3 would be a good balance of power and era-correctness.

jnjg25 wrote:

have 2 pci cards and 1 agp?

Yes.

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Reply 2 of 6, by jnjg25

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i will prob go with the pentium III then (= thanks, just gotta order or make some cables, is there a cooling mod/option you would recommend for these cards?

Reply 3 of 6, by Munx

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Adding some 35-25mm heatsinks using 3M tape worked fine for me.

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My builds!
The FireStarter 2.0 - The wooden K5
The Underdog - The budget K6
The Voodoo powerhouse - The power-hungry K7
The troll PC - The Socket 423 Pentium 4

Reply 4 of 6, by sf78

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I'd go for K6-2 with Voodoo 2 (as a -98 build) and use V3 with PIII as they were both out in -99.

Reply 5 of 6, by Tetrium

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Another vote for Pentium 3. A coppermine of around 800MHz should be more than enough 😜

For Voodoo 2 SLI you could opt for something similar as a Voodoo 3. Personally I like using a single Voodoo 2 in ss7, but most people seem to want to run SLI (which should work perfectly fine on ss7).

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Reply 6 of 6, by deleted_Rc

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Tetrium wrote:

Another vote for Pentium 3. A coppermine of around 800MHz should be more than enough 😜

For Voodoo 2 SLI you could opt for something similar as a Voodoo 3. Personally I like using a single Voodoo 2 in ss7, but most people seem to want to run SLI (which should work perfectly fine on ss7).

Its not the increase of graphic's people desire alone. I sold a voodoo 2 recently and he wanted SLI for the sole reason that he couldn't afford it back then and wants to try it now.
The other reason (which is why I use SLI in my p2) is because of higher fps and resolution.
A voodoo 3 just doesn't fit a p2 I'm but could run on a p3 or ss7 just fine (or banshee ofc)