Voodoo2 SLI - did you own it?

[GnomeCop]

I had a STB Velocity TNT1 16mb with an Orchid Righteous 3d voodoo 12mb... man that was the sh!t back then. Never bothered to get the second one.

 

[ScrewFace]

I had a Diamond Monster Voodoo2 with 12 MB paired with an ATI 8MB Xpert 98. Compared to my previous 4MB Matrox M3D (PowerVR PCX2) it was a power-house! I sold it for $80 and got myself a 3Dfx Voodoo3-3000 AGP 16MB and that was, at the time, my favourite vidoe care I ever had. It had unbelievable image quality and was blistering fast!

 

[Steven the Leech]

Yes until i got the hot new chip stb 8 meg nvida agp

 

[sleepeeg3]

I made the mistake of buying the first Voodoo2 to market, so couldn't have afforded a second card if I wanted to! Was working at CompScrewUSA at the time, found the stash of 8 newly arrived Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 in the warehouse and bought them the day before they hit the store shelves! My "at cost" CompUSA discount afforded me all of a $300 - $50 drop in price. Whee. The Monster was delayed, but it came out all of a week later, which my buddy bought. All of $50 difference, but the extra 4MB didn't do much, well unless you bought SLI as I recall.

Check out some old benchies:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/19980202/diamond-02.html

The good news was that everyone was all hyped about how Diamond's driver implementation was going to be far superior. It turned out it didn't make an ounce of difference (hey, where is Diamond now? Absorbed into Rio wasn't it?) Plus I got a week's worth of the most awe-inspiring gaming I have ever had under Quake 2.

If anyone wants it, I think my old card is still in the retail box, down in the basement, SLI adapter and all.

Ah nostalgia...

 

[Arcanedeath]

I had a Celeron 300A @ 450, w/ a Matrox G200 8mb for the 2d and an Orchid 12mb Voodoo 2 card I paid $279 for at release (fairly good deal at the time) I later purchased another about a year later for around 200ish from a friend of mine who upgraded to a TNT1 16mb and didn't feel he needed an SLI config so sold one of his voodoo 2's (we had both bought our cards at the same time, he just got 2 instead of 1 like me ) I later Ebay'd both of them to fund the purchase of my Geforce SDR, now that was a great card in it's day

 

[pookie69]

Originally posted by: Mareg
Oh yeah, I remember these joyfull days when I had my 2 Diamond monster in SLI. Unreal was such a great game on my setup. People used to come over my place just to watch me play !

You didn't actually let them play then just watch? What a meanie

 

[pookie69]

Weren't these cards available in different memory sizes as well?

Originally i think the 4MB and 8MB versions were for sale, and then later the 12MB found it's way to the market. I owned just the one 8MB one. I was only young then and hence all my £££ came from parents, and they weren't about to get me 2 anytime soon

Still - great gfx card - my first 3D card - i still have it infact mounted on my bedroom wall Rest of the hardware it was with has long been dumped so that gives you an idea of how highly i value my lil vodoo 2 beauty.

 

[MattStone]

I owned 3 different 12MB Diamond Monster 3D II boards at different times. I first got one with a kickass Micron system (P2 450, 128MB Ram, Diamond Viper 550 (TNT) + Voodoo 2) in November '98. I bought another one about 6 months later, and in early 2000 I decided to sell one off in prep for the Voodoo 5 ,which proceeded to have like a gazillion delays...so I ended up buying another one

Then I finally got a Voodoo 5 at a discounted price after 3dfx went out of business.

 

[wfbberzerker]

too young...

 

[0roo0roo]

i barely remember em, but yes, i had sli. tossed em for a tnt 2 eventually.

 

[Corporate Thug]

never owned it

 

[Pudgygiant]

If I have two of them now, does that count?

 

[robisc]

Had two Best Data Arcade FX Voodoo 2's in a Celery 333 system, never was able to overclock that chip though.

 

[biostud]

got the 2nd later, form a friend when he switched to GeForce256
I had 2x Diamond monster 8Mb

 

[Sideswipe001]

So far it's looking like about 30% of ATers had em. (Lots more 'would have' if they had been around though).

I wonder how this will translate into getting nVidia's SLI.

I never had a Voodoo2 myself (didn't realyl get into computers until Voodoo3) but I'm wishing that I had gotten a Voodoo2 to add on to my original GeForce 256. I had a Voodoo3 (PCI) that I kept in my computer with the GeForce. I would reboot and switch primary displays when I wanted to play Glide games.

 

[imported_pak9rabid]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: SonicIce
I'm still using my Voodoo3 3000 right now. :laugh: Too bad im cpu bottlenecked at 300mhz. You guys should see Quake II!

Anyone know where to get a fan for this thing? It's about to burst into flames if I dont keep the case off with a floor fan on it. Not even overclocked.

I think any cheapo GPU hs/fan should be more than sufficient(does it even have a fan?). Go down to a local PC hardware store and pick one up, though you might wanna measure around the GPU for anything that sticks up and might get in the way first.

lol, i remember back when i had my voodoo3, i ordered a fan from 3dcool.com just for it. man, was that a waste of money. i don't think it really did anything. i remember trying to OC it but it wouldn't ever go more like like 5 MHz over stock frequency before i started getting nasty results. of course, now that i remember, the first gen voodoo3 3000 series did have memory issues. i think they used the siemens memory which sucked.

 

[Bovinicus]

I wish I would've done it. However, by the time I bought my next video card, it was faster than two Voodoo2s linked up.

 

[zodder]

My first real card was a Voodoo Banshee.

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: pak9rabid

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: SonicIce
I'm still using my Voodoo3 3000 right now. :laugh: Too bad im cpu bottlenecked at 300mhz. You guys should see Quake II!

Anyone know where to get a fan for this thing? It's about to burst into flames if I dont keep the case off with a floor fan on it. Not even overclocked.

I think any cheapo GPU hs/fan should be more than sufficient(does it even have a fan?). Go down to a local PC hardware store and pick one up, though you might wanna measure around the GPU for anything that sticks up and might get in the way first.

lol, i remember back when i had my voodoo3, i ordered a fan from 3dcool.com just for it. man, was that a waste of money. i don't think it really did anything. i remember trying to OC it but it wouldn't ever go more like like 5 MHz over stock frequency before i started getting nasty results. of course, now that i remember, the first gen voodoo3 3000 series did have memory issues. i think they used the siemens memory which sucked.

Oh, so that 3dcool.com thing is worthless? Can anyone point me to a site where I can get a descent fan for this thing?

 

[magomago]

Nope. I was about to purchase the Voodoo3 2000 (or maybe 1000) for 79.99 (this was during the TNT2 era) at office depot but they ran out and the guy offered me a V2 12 meg for 49.99 and I turned it down because I rememebered that voodoo32k was faster than two v2 in sli~

and then about a month from then I finally got ridof my S3 4meg Virge, and I got a S3 Savage4...with 16 megs of ram. I went through ALL my demo disks and watched games that used to stutter like crazy run silky smooth and pretty and man i loved it...


And then I upgraded to a Geforce2GTS-V for 40 dollars at newegg...though i didn't notice that much improvement over my savage4 to be honest

and then i got a g4mx420 because i wanted the tvout..30 shipped used~ b00m b00m. So i've barely spent over 100 on cards...and my mx420 pwns~ I'm thinking of waiting till i can find g4ti4200s really cheap and get that

 

[wfn]

i had 2 guillemot maxigamer pci 12mb in sli and i was smokin everyone in practically any 3d game. i think this was the only time i had a complete system that was faster than anybody else i knew.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Back in the voodoo 2 days my parents were financing everything that was computers in my life, and they didn't have a clue about computers. I think at that time I was using a diamond card that had 2 megs of onboard memory and stole two megs from the systems memory. Then I upgraded to a voodoo 3. If I had been in the know and had money I would have had 2 voodoo 2s : )

 

[pookie69]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
So far it's looking like about 30% of ATers had em. (Lots more 'would have' if they had been around though).

I wonder how this will translate into getting nVidia's SLI.

It's defo not the same situation i don't think this time around. Times are different now.

There is quite a bit of choice out there as far as good-to-best gfx cards go unlike at the time of the vodoo 2. Plus one has to look beyond just cost also - things like power considerations, heat etc.

So i don't think all those ppl who had vodoo 2 SLI setups are going to be gagging at the mouth to do the same thing this time around. The option is still there however, and that's what i like - having the option to do so.

>>> more choice can only ever be a good thing

 

[JWMiddleton]

The survey didn't cover my situation. I had a VooDoo2, but never got around to buying the 2nd one. But, I was really looking at that option.

I had both V1 and V2...loved em. Think I still have mine in a box somewhere.

I had mine connected with a Diamond Stealth I think. First time I ran a 3D benchmark I was shocked. I had thought my Cyrixs Pr166 was a great chip, until I started looking at framerates. lol

 

[pookie69]

Originally posted by: JWMiddleton


I had both V1 and V2...loved em. Think I still have mine in a box somewhere.

I have mine mounted on my wall.

I will forever remember and love my Diamond Monster 2 3D >>> my first 3D gfx card, and what a great card it was, even without the SLI. But of course the inclusion of the SLI is what has propelled it into hardware history - i'm not being silly - it really was and still should be considered as one of the greatest pieces of hardware (let alone gfx cards) EVER!