Geforce 2 AGP & Voodoo5 5500 PCI Dual Monitrs possible?

[VoodooDC]

I was wondering if anybody has this combination? I am already a Creative Annihilator 2. I?ve been looking for a good dual monitor solution for a while now. We all know that the Matrox G400 Dual Head is no good for games & the secondary RAMDAC is too slow to run a big monitor. Then I was thinking about getting a old G200 PCI, but the RAMDAC on the cared is not too hot too, 250MHZ & plus it?s only 8MB.

Right now I am running 2 19? monitors on the Geforce 2 & an old Matrox Millennium II 4 MB PCI. The Millennium II was a great card 3, 4 years ago. But now it?s just can?t keep up with the Geforce 2 even in 2D.

So I am thinking about getting a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI card. It?s fast in 2D, 350mhz RAMDAC, and I don?t mind taking an extra before I start a game to think about: ?Ummm, Should I run the game on the Geforece 2 for the Frame Rate, or should I run it on Voodoo 5500 for the Anti-Aliasing?? Sounds pretty good. Eh?

I just wanted to know if anybody is running this combo? Or would this even work? I just want to know if there?s any potential problem(s) I might run into before I spend the money.

I am running Windows 98SE, but I don?t mind a upgrading to Windows ME if that will help. (I don?t see how, I used ME for 1 week before I switch back to 98SE)

Any suggestions, recommendations, opinions are welcome.

Thank you

Intel 700@933MHZ
Asus CUSL2
512MB SDRAM PC133
Geforce 2 32MB AGP
Adaptec 29160UW
Quantum Atlas V 18.2GB
IBM 18ES
Aureal 2500

I am not rich or anything, I just work part time in a computer store, they don't pay me, I work for computer parts.

 

[Wag]

It should work, don't see why it wouldn't.

Thing you have to remember is that most games won't run on the 2nd monitor, I'm not sure about Glide games, but I'd assume the same. So every time you rebooted depending on which card you wanted to use for gaming you'ld have to switch it to your primary, or for OGL you'ld have to disable one card.

A pain overall and it totally put me off dual-monitor setups.

 

[RogueOne]

It'll work, but like he said, it'll be a pain to try to switch cards for games. Some games have the option before you start up the game to use a specific card for 3d effects, such as lucas arts games and a few others. But like he said, you'd have to switch your primary card by booting up. I think Winme might have added support for dual card configs, I'm not sure. There also might be a way to set up profiles so that you wouldn't need to completely reboot to choose a primary card. Again, I haven't personally tried these methods, but they're just some ideas that may or may not work.