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I have a AIW Pro (same chipset)
And a VooDoo2 (faceless generic reference board)

<spiderman@heroes.hq.org> wrote in message
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> Sorry if the question looks stupid but I confess that I don't really
> understand how these videoboards work, and what each of them can do.
> What I have in my mind is :
>
> 1) ATI Rage Pro is already performing video acceleration. So if a
> Voodo2 is added what benefit could be expected ?

The 3d Rendering on the Rage Pro sucks. The quality offered by the Voodoo2
is faster, prettier, and smoother.

> 2) Does it work to mix an AGP board (ATI) with a PCI board (Voodoo2) ?

An AGP board and a PCI Voodoo work fine - as long as it's NOT a 3000+
The Voodoo 1 and 2 boards only render 3d - they have a pass through cable
that carries the picture from your 2D card, and you plug your monitor into
the other hole. Some say this degrades picture at hi res - I have never
noticed this. The setup I have is lovely. The graphics are great - currently
there is no justification for anything faster. The Voodoo 300 range only
does what their older chips do, but faster. The best next generation card
IMHO is the Matrox G400 and G400 MAX. These actually expand the range of
tricks that the cards do by being able to hardware bump-map ( Check out the
website), as well as being faster than the Voodoo cards at traditional
rendering, but going up to 32 bit colour (true colour, Voodoo only does 16
bit hicolour) The bump mapping is supposed to hit performance a little, but
I havn't seen the card at work (but it is on my wish-list).
I have recentl gone though a spate of switching the res on games to 800x600
on my Voodoo2, despite fears that it might chug, and have been pleasantly
surprised - it all looks very crisp and no chugging. The latest driver set
is also wonderful - unlike the previous set, which sucked.

So yes, it will work, and yes it is good.