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"Allan Sheely" <NO@MAIL.HERE> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:15:55 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> >There's a bit of a difference between the voodoo2 which was
designed to
> >run solo or be linked to another voodoo2, and some feature on a
> >motherboard to stick two video cards into, that _were_ _not_
designed to
> >work together.
> >
> >It the difference between 2 random people, and a set of twins.
> >
> >Xocyll
>
> Personally, I would never want dual vid cards, just as I wouldn't
want
> dual cpu's. And there are two reasons for that, 2 means twice as
much
> heat and twice as much noise.

If you read the description of the Alienware setup, you will see that
they are liquid cooling their two card rigs,
so no noise and little heat....

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"Arnaldo Horta" <ahorta@spamdie.comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Allan Sheely" <NO@MAIL.HERE> wrote in message
> news:5baaa01sqrt5opdpjimn89bnn8ikv5c1k6@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:15:55 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >There's a bit of a difference between the voodoo2 which was
> designed to
> > >run solo or be linked to another voodoo2, and some feature on a
> > >motherboard to stick two video cards into, that _were_ _not_
> designed to
> > >work together.
> > >
> > >It the difference between 2 random people, and a set of twins.
> > >
> > >Xocyll
> >
> > Personally, I would never want dual vid cards, just as I wouldn't
> want
> > dual cpu's. And there are two reasons for that, 2 means twice as
> much
> > heat and twice as much noise.
>
> If you read the description of the Alienware setup, you will see that
> they are liquid cooling their two card rigs,
> so no noise and little heat....
>
You guys should check out this link http://tinyurl.com/22pt3 they not only
do they have a Alienware box with the two card set up, they also have a
short vid clip from E3 showing it in action. So for all the guys that think
it's not going to work (I was one of them) it does. Now how well it's really
going to work is another matter. JLC

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On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:40:23 -0400, "Arnaldo Horta"
<ahorta@spamdie.comcast.net> wrote:


>If you read the description of the Alienware setup, you will see that
>they are liquid cooling their two card rigs,
>so no noise and little heat....
>

OK, thx. Man, these rigs are going to cost big bucks though so I still
won't be getting one.

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Andrew <spamtrap@localhost> wrote in
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> On 14 May 2004 21:19:10 GMT, Knight37 <knight37m@email.com> wrote:
>
>>I have to agree this idea sounds pretty hare-brained. I mean, why not
>>just buy a faster video card? And if you already have the fastest, are
>>you really going to want another $400ish video card just to gain a few
>>FPS? I don't think the consumer market is going to really support this
>>idea even if they get it to work, unless it just works FABULOUSLY and
>>you can get almost twice the performance out of 2 cards versus 1.
>
> You weren't around when the Voodoo 2's came out were you.

Yes, I was. But this is not the same thing, as others have pointed out in
this thread.

Knight37