Can I use two different mixed brand Voodoo2 cards in SLI configuration?
Yes, there’s some caviats though: – The standard V2 driver doesn’t support mixed brand cards. You can either modify your drivers or download drivers that have been modified. Either way you can find this info at Devnull’s Mis-Matched SLI Site. – When you mix an 8 and 12 Mb card, the 12 Mb card will be treated as an 8. For SLI to work, both cards MUST have the same memory size. The memory is NOT additive – both cards must load duplicates of all the textures. So 4 Mb on the 12 Mb card will be ignored and go to waste. 8 Mb SLI is no great shakes – you’ll still suffer from texture thrashing in some games because you only have 4 Mb of texture memory (again, the memory is not additive between the cards). I would recommend selling or giving the 8 Mb away and buy a 12Mb card – or two. You’ll get more of a performance boost from one 12 Mb V2 than 8Mb SLI just from reduced texture thrashing. – Don’t even THINK about trying to overclock mixed brand cards in SLI. SLI is very unstable when over cloc
