Old School Videocard Question

Jobistober · 29-November-06, 04:19 PM

Ok, so this one is for the old school tech experts.

I recently aquired two identical 3D Rage Pro PCI videocards and they came with this ribbon cable. I was wondering if the ribbon cable is meant to be used to connect the two cards together as sort of an old pre-dated SLi setup.

If so, I'd like to round up some old hardware and make an old school gaming machine.

Master Yunk · 29-November-06, 05:40 PM

Yeah, I'd say you could link them... SLi has been around for a while.. just not as affordable (if thats what you call it now) as it is now.

and now for some wikipedia linkage.

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	The name SLI was first used by 3dfx with its Scan-Line Interleave, which was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo 2 line of graphics accelerators. 3dfx was later purchased by NVIDIA, who ended development, and then sales, of the Voodoo series cards. NVIDIA reintroduced the SLI name in 2004 and intends for it to be used in modern computer systems based on the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. However, the technology behind the name SLI has changed dramatically.

THRiLL KiLL · 29-November-06, 06:02 PM

voodoo had that ability...

i think ati had that for running dvd encoder cards

j-dogg · 29-November-06, 06:16 PM

3dfx was the only one with that capability at the time of 1998 with the Voodoo 2 PCI. They brought SLi back with the Voodoo 5 series of GPUs.

The cable you were supplied is most likely some sort of VESA input or something similar. Either that or a connector to connect the card to a DVD decoder card. The only ATi cards that ever featured some form of SLi were the Rage Fury Maxx cards, designed to compete with the Voodoo 5 at the time. They featured two Rage 128 chipsets and total 32mb of SGRAM memory. Compared to the Voodoo 5, they were slugs, and the Radeon 7000 that debuted shortly thereafter destroyed it in benchmarks.

Jobistober · 29-November-06, 06:53 PM

Thanks for the help fellas. I guess I'll just use one to setup 3 monitors! Lol. Anyway, thanks again.

reflux · 29-November-06, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j-dogg


	3dfx was the only one with that capability at the time of 1998 with the Voodoo 2 PCI. They brought SLi back with the Voodoo 5 series of GPUs. The cable you were supplied is most likely some sort of VESA input or something similar. Either that or a connector to connect the card to a DVD decoder card. The only ATi cards that ever featured some form of SLi were the Rage Fury Maxx cards, designed to compete with the Voodoo 5 at the time. They featured two Rage 128 chipsets and total 32mb of SGRAM memory. Compared to the Voodoo 5, they were slugs, and the Radeon 7000 that debuted shortly thereafter destroyed it in benchmarks.

Good post.

29-November-06, 04:19 PM		#1 (permalink)
Jobistober P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic	Old School Videocard Question Ok, so this one is for the old school tech experts. I recently aquired two identical 3D Rage Pro PCI videocards and they came with this ribbon cable. I was wondering if the ribbon cable is meant to be used to connect the two cards together as sort of an old pre-dated SLi setup. If so, I'd like to round up some old hardware and make an old school gaming machine. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Jobistober; 29-November-06 at 04:25 PM..

29-November-06, 06:02 PM		#3 (permalink)
THRiLL KiLL PcApEX's PuNK ROckER	Re: Old School Videocard Question voodoo had that ability... i think ati had that for running dvd encoder cards

29-November-06, 06:16 PM		#4 (permalink)
j-dogg Mystical Schwinn Guru	Re: Old School Videocard Question 3dfx was the only one with that capability at the time of 1998 with the Voodoo 2 PCI. They brought SLi back with the Voodoo 5 series of GPUs. The cable you were supplied is most likely some sort of VESA input or something similar. Either that or a connector to connect the card to a DVD decoder card. The only ATi cards that ever featured some form of SLi were the Rage Fury Maxx cards, designed to compete with the Voodoo 5 at the time. They featured two Rage 128 chipsets and total 32mb of SGRAM memory. Compared to the Voodoo 5, they were slugs, and the Radeon 7000 that debuted shortly thereafter destroyed it in benchmarks.

29-November-06, 06:53 PM		#5 (permalink)
Jobistober P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic	Re: Old School Videocard Question Thanks for the help fellas. I guess I'll just use one to setup 3 monitors! Lol. Anyway, thanks again.

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