Mixing Voodoo2 cards?

I have one of the original Creative Labs 12 meg Voodoo2 cards, can I run it in SLI mode with one of the new 3Dfx (STB?) Voodoo2-1000 cards that are on the store shelves right now? I can't find another Creative Labs 12 megger anywhere. I think that $49.99 (re-furbished) Voodoo2 12 meg sale from Creative is over. The webpage is gone! Anyone know about this? Thanks, Sal V.

You can do it. How you do it depends on several factors and can have varying results. Your safest bet is to get another CL. Also, in theory, any V2 reference board should work with another using reference drivers. My experience with this is that the theory is BS. The metabyte wicked 3d is said to SLI with any V2 when using metabyte drivers. The latter is not surprising as a programmer who has just left metabyte wrote a patch for reference drivers that allows mismatched SLI. This patch worked for me, but note that updates for this patch to match reference driver updates are strictly up to the guy who wrote the program - and I think he won't be writing anymore. For the mismatch patch, try here: http://home.earthlink.net/~aosnovich/ BTW - I just checked the creative site, they are listing out of stock on the refurbs. This has happened before and they ended up offering more later. If I had a CL, I would jump on it next time.

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> I have one of the original Creative Labs 12 meg Voodoo2 cards, can I run it > in SLI mode with one of the new 3Dfx (STB?) Voodoo2-1000 cards that are on > the store shelves right now? > I can't find another Creative Labs 12 megger anywhere. I think that $49.99 > (re-furbished) Voodoo2 12 meg sale from Creative is over. The webpage is > gone! > Anyone know about this? > Thanks, > Sal V.

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>[snip] >I can't find another Creative Labs 12 megger anywhere. I think that $49.99 >(re-furbished) Voodoo2 12 meg sale from Creative is over. The webpage is >gone! A different tack: post on the video ng that you are looking for a used 12 megger. I was able to buy a used Creative 12M V2 from a fellow in California for $50. As long as you can agree that the card works, that is... Good luck, --mountain K