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Offline tokyoracer

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Re: Voodoo and Radeon cohabitation
« on: March 05, 2010, 06:56:52 PM »
As far as I'm aware, no you can't.
They both require specified drivers and they don't talk to eachother. You 'might' be able to run them at the same time but not in some sort of SLI/CrossFire style configuration. If you can do that then it would seem slightly pointless to me.
 

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Re: Voodoo and Radeon cohabitation
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 04:59:41 AM »
Quote from: Gulliver;546341
Good point, let me quote what Elbox says:

The Radeon PCI card can be used in the Mediator systems together with the Voodoo gfx card, which allows work on two (or more) monitors simultaneousely. Here (1) you can see the list of currently supported screen modes in this configuration. In Mediator systems where two gfx cards are installed (Radeon and Voodoo), all DMA buffers are automatically redirected to the Radeon card memory.

(1) http://elbox.com/products/extra_prod/screenmodes.html

Hmm, quite neat I suppose but if the ATI Radeon 9200 / 9250 has two monitor outputs then what's the need? Unless you want 4 monitors? :insane:
Still, the only advantage of having two different cards running at the same time would be for better compatibility.
Clever how an old system can do this but for me personally, it is slightly pointless.