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Article #665Re: Important News for SLI users!
From: Rich
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:00
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Made no difference on mine. Quake 2 got exactly 79.8 fps at 1024x768 repeatedly on both. I got an i740 agp with it. Voodoo2's in first and second slot on my super7 mb. -- remove $removethis$ from email when responding via e-mail James wrote in message <36CB7CA7.D08AB778@hotmail.com>... >Just a small 'discovery' that I would like to share: > >I'm using a Spectra 2500 and two Creative Voodoo2 12MB in SLI. The two >V2s are inserted in the fourth and fifth PCI slot (the second farthest >and furthest PCI slot away from the AGP slot respectively) on a Aopen >AX6BC mainboard. > >When the reverse passthrough cable is connected to the V2 in the fifth >slot, my fps in Unreal is about 49-50. Connecting the passthrough cable >to the V2 in the fourth slot, my fps dropped to about 44-45. Thinking >that my V2 in the fourth slot might be faulty, I switch the two V2s (the >one in the fifth PCI slot originally is now inserted into the fourth PCI >slot and vice versa)and connecting the passthrough cable to the V2 in >the fifth slot(originally in the fourth slot), and the fps is at 49-50 >again. > >It seems to be that the fps is affected by the 'position' which the >passthrough cable is connected to the V2. Connecting the passthrough >cable to the V2 in the PCI slot further away from the AGP slot seems to >allow more fps. > >This is only what I experience personally and doesn't guarantee that it >would have the same effect for you. > >Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. >
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